TheCollector
10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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TheCollector
Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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5 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
Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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TheCollector
Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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TheCollector
How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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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...
TheCollector
What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a week ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
TheCollector
Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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a year ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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TheCollector
Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
a month ago
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
TheCollector
Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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TheCollector
How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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a year ago
Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
a month ago
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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TheCollector
Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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TheCollector
Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
Flashbak
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...
2 months ago
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 Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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TheCollector
Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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4 days ago
African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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TheCollector
Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
a year ago
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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8 months ago
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
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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TheCollector
What is the Eye of Ra?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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2 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
TheCollector
A (Brief) History of the IRA
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a month ago
TheCollector
Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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a year ago
TheCollector
Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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a year ago
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...
9 months ago
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 Conlangs?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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6 days ago
TheCollector
When Was the First Flight in History?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
a month ago
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
a year ago
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
TheCollector
5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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a month ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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a week ago
TheCollector
Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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11 months ago
TheCollector
American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
4 days ago
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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7 months ago
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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TheCollector
5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
a year ago
...and the feared Persian Army
TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
10 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
9 months ago
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
a week ago
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
TheCollector
4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
7 months ago
But they forget the people and the Street.
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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TheCollector
Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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TheCollector
What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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TheCollector
How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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TheCollector
3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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TheCollector
Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
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...
TheCollector
Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
Flashbak
Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
3 weeks ago
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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TheCollector
7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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TheCollector
9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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TheCollector
How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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TheCollector
6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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TheCollector
What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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TheCollector
Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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TheCollector
Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Classical Wisdom
Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
5 months ago
TheCollector
Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
yesterday
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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TheCollector
6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
TheCollector
Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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TheCollector
This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
3 months ago
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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9 months ago
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.
TheCollector
15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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TheCollector
9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
4 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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TheCollector
10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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TheCollector
What Was the First Written Language?
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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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...
10 months ago
“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
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
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
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
TheCollector
London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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TheCollector
The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
2 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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TheCollector
Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
a week ago
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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TheCollector
The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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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...
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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TheCollector
Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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TheCollector
Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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History Today Feed
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
10 months ago
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
Flashbak
Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
3 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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TheCollector
Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
a month ago
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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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,...
3 months ago
“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
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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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.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
TheCollector
5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
5 months ago
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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TheCollector
5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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TheCollector
Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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TheCollector
The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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a year ago
TheCollector
Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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TheCollector
Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
2 weeks ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
TheCollector
7 African Myths About Animals
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TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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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
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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TheCollector
TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
a month ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
Flashbak
New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
TheCollector
Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
TheCollector
Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
TheCollector
Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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TheCollector
Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
a month ago
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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5 months ago
TheCollector
8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
2 weeks ago
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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11 months ago
TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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5 months ago
Flashbak
François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
3 weeks ago
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
TheCollector
Who Were the 43 Group?
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