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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
9 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
3 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
a month ago
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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8 months ago
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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9 months ago
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
2 days ago
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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6 months ago
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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a year ago
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
TheCollector
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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a year ago
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
11 months ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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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...
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
9 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
a month ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 7
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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8 months ago
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
2 months ago
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
4 weeks ago
The Great Migration to Bluesky
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
TheCollector
How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
4 months ago
TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
4 months ago
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
TheCollector
Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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a year ago
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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TheCollector
Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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11 months ago
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
TheCollector
The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
7 months ago
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
TheCollector
How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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TheCollector
The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
5 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
2 months ago
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
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...
TheCollector
How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient Novel
a year ago
Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
TheCollector
What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
3 weeks ago
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Who Was Averroes?
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
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Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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