TheCollector
Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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a month ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
TheCollector
The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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11 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
5 days ago
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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5 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
2 weeks ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
2 months ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
TheCollector
Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
TheCollector
10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
8 months ago
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
2 months ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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a year ago
TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
6 months ago
Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
6 days ago
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
TheCollector
What Is the Ides of March?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
TheCollector
What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
a year ago
TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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12 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
2 weeks ago
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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a month ago
TheCollector
What is the Eye of Ra?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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12 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
a year ago
TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
7 months ago
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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a year ago
TheCollector
Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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a year ago
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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15 hours ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
What Is Gnosticism?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
11 months ago
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
TheCollector
Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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11 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
a month ago
TheCollector
10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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3 months ago
TheCollector
4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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a month ago
TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
5 months ago
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
5 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
6 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
2 weeks ago
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
TheCollector
How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
4 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
TheCollector
10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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a month ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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a year ago
TheCollector
Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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6 days ago
TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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a year ago
TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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12 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
TheCollector
William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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4 months ago
TheCollector
8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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7 months ago
TheCollector
7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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12 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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a month ago
TheCollector
Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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7 months ago
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
10 months ago
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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4 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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5 months ago
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.
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,...
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
TheCollector
Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
8 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
a year ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
TheCollector
Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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3 weeks ago
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
3 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
12 months ago
TheCollector
Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
8 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
8 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
Wrong Side of...
Leaving behind the history written in letters of blood
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
a week ago
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
a year ago
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
10 months ago
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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2 weeks ago
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
TheCollector
Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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9 months ago
TheCollector
French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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6 months 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...
2 months 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:
Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
2 months ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
8 months ago
TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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a year ago
TheCollector
The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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a month ago
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...
6 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
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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TheCollector
Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
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An experiment with historical simulation
TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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On 17th century "cocaine"
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
TheCollector
The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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