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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
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At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Summary of changes for August
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Ovid's Dating Advice
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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The Birth of Ovid
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Empedocles
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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What Is Gnosticism?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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What Is the Will to Power?
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History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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When Was D-Day?
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
TheCollector
The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
TheCollector
Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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TheCollector
Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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TheCollector
5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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TheCollector
David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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TheCollector
What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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3 months ago
weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
TheCollector
What Was the Chaco War?
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TheCollector
When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
TheCollector
10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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TheCollector
Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
3 months ago
TheCollector
5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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TheCollector
7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a week ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
TheCollector
Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
3 months ago
TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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a year ago
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
12 months ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
TheCollector
Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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TheCollector
The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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TheCollector
Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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TheCollector
10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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9 months ago
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
TheCollector
Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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TheCollector
New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Flashbak
1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
TheCollector
A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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TheCollector
Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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TheCollector
What Makes the City of London Unique?
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TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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TheCollector
What Was the First Written Language?
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TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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TheCollector
Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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4 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
TheCollector
5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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TheCollector
Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
2 months ago
The Silence of the Elephants
TheCollector
Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
5 days ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
TheCollector
Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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TheCollector
5 Military Geniuses From History
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TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
3 weeks ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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TheCollector
Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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TheCollector
What Is Anti-Natalism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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7 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
TheCollector
Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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TheCollector
Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
TheCollector
Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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TheCollector
Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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TheCollector
Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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TheCollector
How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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a year ago
TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
a week ago
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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2 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
a month ago
Europe turns away from America.
TheCollector
8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
TheCollector
Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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TheCollector
The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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2 months ago
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