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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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How the CCP is Closing China
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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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...
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Classical Wisdom
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
a month ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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12 months ago
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.
TheCollector
Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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TheCollector
London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
5 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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6 months ago
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
6 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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TheCollector
How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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...
2 weeks 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...
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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TheCollector
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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7 months ago
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
TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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5 months ago
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
10 months ago
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Classical Wisdom
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In Search of Homer
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TheCollector
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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TheCollector
Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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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...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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TheCollector
Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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a year ago
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...
a week ago
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
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Who Was Eusebius?
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TheCollector
Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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TheCollector
Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
4 months ago
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
2 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
TheCollector
An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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6 months ago
TheCollector
5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
4 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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TheCollector
Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
What Is First Thessalonians About?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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TheCollector
Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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11 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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a year ago
TheCollector
11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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a month ago
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
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