TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
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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...
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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
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
8 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
TheCollector
7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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TheCollector
Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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TheCollector
Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
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How can we train Resilience?
TheCollector
Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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TheCollector
Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Flashbak
A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
TheCollector
What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
History Today Feed
How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
7 months ago
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
a year ago
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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TheCollector
Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About?
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TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
TheCollector
How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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TheCollector
World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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TheCollector
Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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TheCollector
What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
TheCollector
What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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TheCollector
Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
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TheCollector
Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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TheCollector
Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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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
What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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TheCollector
The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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TheCollector
5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Classical Wisdom
Beyond Stoicism
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TheCollector
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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TheCollector
How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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TheCollector
Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
11 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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TheCollector
What Was Jim Crow?
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TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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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...
Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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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
“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 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
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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TheCollector
How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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TheCollector
What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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TheCollector
How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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TheCollector
Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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TheCollector
Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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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
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
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TheCollector
Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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TheCollector
Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Flashbak
12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
a month ago
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
TheCollector
What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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TheCollector
10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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TheCollector
Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
TheCollector
Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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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
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
6 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
TheCollector
Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
a month ago
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
10 months ago
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
2 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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TheCollector
How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
TheCollector
The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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TheCollector
How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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TheCollector
An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
TheCollector
A History of the US House of Representatives
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Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
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TheCollector
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
TheCollector
Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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TheCollector
Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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TheCollector
What Is Solipsism?
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TheCollector
10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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TheCollector
A History of the United States Supreme Court
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TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Hundred Rabbits
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
6 months ago
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...
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?
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
Trying to Understand...
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6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
a month ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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a year ago
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Sappho
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Last Call for Classical Gifts
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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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...
4 months ago
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...
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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