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The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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Stop Making Sense.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Empress Theodora
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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The Life of Aristotle
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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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,...
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Flashbak
Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
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And does it need to be true to be important?
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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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...
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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The politics of physiocracy
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A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Feminist Stoic?
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
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TheCollector
New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
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TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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History Today Feed
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
TheCollector
Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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a year ago
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
2 days ago
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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TheCollector
Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is a Film Auteur?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
TheCollector
Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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2 days ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
5 hours ago
TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
5 days ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Black Mexicans
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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a year ago
Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
2 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
TheCollector
What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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a week ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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a year ago
TheCollector
3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes the City of London Unique?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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a year ago
TheCollector
MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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7 months ago
TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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a month ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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a month ago
Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
TheCollector
What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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3 months ago
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...
Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
TheCollector
7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
TheCollector
Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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3 weeks ago
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
TheCollector
8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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a year ago
Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
Flashbak
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...
2 months ago
“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...
TheCollector
Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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4 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
a month ago
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was George Eliot?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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11 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Less than ONE Week Left
In Search of Homer Trip Opening
2 months ago
In Search of Homer Trip Opening
TheCollector
The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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a month ago
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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5 months ago
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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2 days ago
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