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TheCollector
Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election undefined
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt undefined
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer undefined
5 months ago
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review ‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review JamesHoare Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do) undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978) A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
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A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations. Shurlygin, Victor.  СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair undefined
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024 undefined
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks undefined
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey undefined
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,”  he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,”  he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)? undefined
7 months ago
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History? undefined
11 months ago
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle? undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Should We Care About Children? Bringing History to the Future
a year ago
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world. the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
TheCollector
Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked undefined
5 months ago
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name undefined
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know undefined
4 months ago
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained undefined
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922 “A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens     In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure “We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs   It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
TheCollector
Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine undefined
3 months ago
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians undefined
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg undefined
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire undefined
a year ago
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages? undefined
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator? undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus The God of Wine!
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED     We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
TheCollector
A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road? undefined
4 weeks ago
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock? undefined
8 months ago
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests? undefined
6 months ago
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States undefined
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650) At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
Trying to Understand...
The Newer World Order. But can they get their heads round it?
10 months ago
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained undefined
11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
TheCollector
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher? And the Boundless Universe
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Should We Be More Naked? Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry The Powers of Soviet Puppetry JamesHoare Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life undefined
7 months ago
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen? undefined
11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All? Richard III and Kingly Justice for All? JamesHoare Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Atomists The Origins of Oppenheimer?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is a Medieval Morality Play? undefined
7 months ago
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983 In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
TheCollector
Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes undefined
7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji. This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
TheCollector
Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics undefined
12 months ago
Global Inequality...
The third framing Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953) A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War undefined
a year ago
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover? undefined
a year ago
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19 undefined
4 months ago
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips) undefined
a year ago
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues undefined
a year ago
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas? undefined
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history. the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
9 months ago
TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific? undefined
8 months ago
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI undefined
5 months ago
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City undefined
2 months ago
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters? undefined
a month ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023 Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
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a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
TheCollector
Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Julius Caesar
9 months ago
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church undefined
9 months ago
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba undefined
6 months ago
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History? undefined
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality undefined
a year ago
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre undefined
7 months ago
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What Is the Ides of March? undefined
9 months ago
Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories) Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
a month ago
TheCollector
Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000 undefined
a year ago
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy undefined
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed? Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature? undefined
8 months ago
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948) With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
TheCollector
Who Was Oscar Wilde? undefined
a year ago
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz undefined
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus? undefined
9 months ago
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King undefined
10 months ago
Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most? Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
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What Is Transcendentalism? undefined
11 months ago
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land Nothing connects.
a year ago
TheCollector
Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas undefined
6 months ago
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece undefined
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford... Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit undefined
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal? undefined
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India undefined
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War undefined
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting undefined
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy? undefined
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning “Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera     Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
TheCollector
15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy undefined
8 months ago
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian undefined
7 months ago
African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom. "The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims? undefined
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology? undefined
a year ago
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen? undefined
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
TheCollector
The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy undefined
a year ago
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence undefined
9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book The Lost Tudor Domesday Book JamesHoare Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970) Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas.  I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy? undefined
12 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review ‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review JamesHoare Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting? undefined
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit undefined
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906 A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy undefined
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius? undefined
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments) undefined
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome? undefined
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024 Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
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Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories? undefined
4 months ago
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin? undefined
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide undefined
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca undefined
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Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond. uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature? undefined
a year ago
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire undefined
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist undefined
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya undefined
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express Interrail: The Trans Europe Express JamesHoare Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest? undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak. It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
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A History of the US House of Representatives undefined
a year ago
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate undefined
2 months ago
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom? undefined
2 months ago
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future? Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste? undefined
4 months ago
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
Flashbak
Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982 Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles? undefined
3 months ago
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts? undefined
2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review ‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review j.hoare Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s “Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code undefined
8 months ago
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius j.hoare Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt undefined
3 months ago
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art undefined
3 months ago
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like? undefined
7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson. If we can only learn it.
2 months ago
TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery undefined
a year ago
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What Was the Great Migration in the US? undefined
a year ago
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere? undefined
7 months ago
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore undefined
2 months ago
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs undefined
a year ago
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers undefined
a month ago
African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th... The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas The Saint behind Santa
2 days ago
TheCollector
Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism undefined
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know undefined
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays undefined
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature? undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves? The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ undefined
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge? undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead Arguing with the Dead JamesHoare Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966) The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum? undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language undefined
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
TheCollector
Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History undefined
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze? Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
TheCollector
Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s undefined
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880 Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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The Conquest of Space (1962?) I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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The Last Day of World War One At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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A Short Service Announcement. From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888 The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet   In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960) Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy! Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy! Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Planet Trip (1960) To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus. Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen.  I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find  the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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