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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Summary of changes for June 2023
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
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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
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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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...
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
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As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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Summary of changes for October
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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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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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
TheCollector
What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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5 months ago
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
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
a month ago
TheCollector
11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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2 weeks ago
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
Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
6 months ago
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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TheCollector
7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
TheCollector
‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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a year ago
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
3 months ago
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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TheCollector
18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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5 days ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
TheCollector
Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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TheCollector
What Is Thatcherism?
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
a week ago
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
a month ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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TheCollector
Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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TheCollector
What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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TheCollector
Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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TheCollector
8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
TheCollector
Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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6 months ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia
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TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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TheCollector
5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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8 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
TheCollector
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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TheCollector
The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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8 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
Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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TheCollector
Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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TheCollector
Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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TheCollector
King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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TheCollector
6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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TheCollector
Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
a month ago
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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TheCollector
Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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TheCollector
What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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TheCollector
What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 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 October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
TheCollector
The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
TheCollector
UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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3 months ago
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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TheCollector
8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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2 months ago
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