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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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TheCollector
Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
TheCollector
What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Flashbak
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
11 months ago
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
TheCollector
The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
yesterday
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
2 months ago
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
TheCollector
When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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TheCollector
Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
TheCollector
What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
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...
Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
10 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Flashbak
One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
8 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
What Is Transcendentalism?
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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 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
11 months ago
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
What is the Eye of Ra?
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TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
2 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
Who Was Julius Caesar?
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TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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TheCollector
Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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TheCollector
Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Flashbak
Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
3 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
7 hours ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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TheCollector
British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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TheCollector
Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
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Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
7 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
a year ago
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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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?
TheCollector
Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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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
Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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What Is Solipsism?
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
2 days ago
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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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
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
TheCollector
Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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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
a year ago
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
TheCollector
NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
What Is Theodicy?
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
a month ago
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Overcoming Bias
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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The Electoral College Explained
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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US President or American Caesar?
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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Patterns in Humanity
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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