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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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The Silence of the Elephants
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
TheCollector
Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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TheCollector
10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
TheCollector
How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Who Was Averroes?
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
a year ago
TheCollector
How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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TheCollector
The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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TheCollector
French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
TheCollector
The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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2 months ago
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
Flashbak
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
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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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...
10 months ago
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...
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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TheCollector
Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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TheCollector
Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
TheCollector
Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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TheCollector
7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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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...
Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
9 months ago
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
TheCollector
Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
TheCollector
Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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TheCollector
Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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TheCollector
The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
Who Were the 43 Group?
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
TheCollector
Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
2 months ago
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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11 months ago
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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