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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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What Was Organization Todt?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
5 months ago
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
TheCollector
Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
TheCollector
Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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9 months ago
African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
TheCollector
US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
Flashbak
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...
2 months ago
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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
TheCollector
The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
TheCollector
Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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3 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
TheCollector
“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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4 months ago
Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
3 days ago
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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a year ago
TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
11 months ago
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
TheCollector
5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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6 days ago
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...
3 weeks ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
2 days ago
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
2 months ago
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
TheCollector
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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10 months ago
TheCollector
American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
4 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Die?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
History Today Feed
The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
a month ago
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
TheCollector
Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
3 weeks ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
TheCollector
Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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2 months ago
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
3 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
a week ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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a week ago
TheCollector
The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
a year ago
Bringing History to the Future
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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a year ago
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
a week ago
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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7 months 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
Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
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...
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
TheCollector
4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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a month ago
TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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7 months ago
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