TheCollector
The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month 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
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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TheCollector
6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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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...
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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j.hoare
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
TheCollector
The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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TheCollector
A History of the United States Senate
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TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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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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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
TheCollector
Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
TheCollector
What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
TheCollector
Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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TheCollector
Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
a month ago
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
TheCollector
A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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TheCollector
Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
TheCollector
10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
TheCollector
Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
over a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
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History Today Review of the Year
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Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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New Cabins *NOW* Available
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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You don't need to know that.
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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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...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Sappho
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Classical Wisdom
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Battle of the Historians
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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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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Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of...
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Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of his adopted city of Philadelphia and the aeronautical industry, and photographs of lightning. Setting out to prove “lightning bolts were not of the zig-zag form pictured by artists”,...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Who Was Vortigern?
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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TheCollector
Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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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...
a year 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...
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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TheCollector
Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
TheCollector
10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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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?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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...
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
12 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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