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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Classical Wisdom
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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TheCollector
Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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TheCollector
8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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African History...
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Classical Wisdom
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Who Was Averroes?
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
What Is the Will to Power?
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
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4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
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TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Lives of Exiles
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TheCollector
Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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History Today Feed
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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TheCollector
The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
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TheCollector
What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Flashbak
Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
6 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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TheCollector
10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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TheCollector
How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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TheCollector
Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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TheCollector
Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
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Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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History Today Feed
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
7 African Myths About Animals
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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Belief in the Ancient World
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
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Africa's past carved in ivory
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
TheCollector
Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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TheCollector
Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Flashbak
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
TheCollector
King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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What Are Conlangs?
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TheCollector
What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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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...
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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a home for pino
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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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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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The Story of Thebes
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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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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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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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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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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