TheCollector
Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Wrong Side of...
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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No Meta Status Orgs
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a month ago
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The KGB After Stalin
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
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Post-postal
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
Flashbak
Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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What Is the Didache?
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Who Was George Hodel?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Final Call
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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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
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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African History...
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
TheCollector
Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
TheCollector
Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Classical Wisdom
Upcoming Events
So you're in the know...
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
10 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
History Today Feed
The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
a month ago
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Early Christianity
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
3 days ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
TheCollector
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
TheCollector
Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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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
The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Europe's absent-minded revolution
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Columbine 25 Years On
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Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
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Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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TheCollector
7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
7 months ago
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
TheCollector
Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
11 months ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
7 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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