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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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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...
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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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.
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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Was Alexander Great?
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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More Than A Philosopher
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Myths and Metamorphoses
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Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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And some associated reflections.
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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What Is Solipsism?
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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Important Notification
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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New Cabins *NOW* Available
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Weekend Roundup
Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
11 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
2 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
TheCollector
The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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6 months ago
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
a year ago
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
TheCollector
Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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6 months ago
African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
TheCollector
Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Julius Caesar?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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11 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
NEW Event
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
TheCollector
Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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a year ago
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
10 months ago
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
7 months ago
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
TheCollector
Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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4 days ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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a week ago
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
8 months ago
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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3 months ago
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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4 months ago
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
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
11 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
TheCollector
What Was Jim Crow?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
6 months ago
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
TheCollector
Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
TheCollector
Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
TheCollector
Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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4 months ago
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
Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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4 months ago
TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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4 months ago
TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
TheCollector
Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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a year ago
TheCollector
Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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a year ago
TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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7 months ago
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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4 days ago
TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
TheCollector
Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
TheCollector
Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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a year ago
TheCollector
Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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a year ago
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
a month ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
TheCollector
Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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a year ago
TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia
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7 months ago
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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a year ago
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