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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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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,...
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
Trying to Understand...
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.
History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
TheCollector
The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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History Today Feed
France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
a year ago
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
7 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
TheCollector
Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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TheCollector
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
8 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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a year ago
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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TheCollector
How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
History Today Feed
How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
11 months ago
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
TheCollector
Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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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
9 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
8 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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TheCollector
Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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8 months ago
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