TheCollector
Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
TheCollector
Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
TheCollector
Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
TheCollector
Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
TheCollector
How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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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...
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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...
a year ago
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...
Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
11 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
TheCollector
Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Halloween?
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TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
TheCollector
How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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African History...
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Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
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Who speaks of the Armenians?
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
TheCollector
Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
8 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
TheCollector
The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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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...
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
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In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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TheCollector
Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
2 months ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
TheCollector
9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
TheCollector
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
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TheCollector
Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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