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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
7 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
4 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
3 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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History Today Feed
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
a year ago
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
TheCollector
10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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a year ago
Flashbak
Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5...
3 months ago
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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11 months ago
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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5 months ago
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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2 months ago
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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10 months ago
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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3 months ago
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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12 months ago
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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5 months ago
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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a year ago
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
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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11 months ago
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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a year ago
TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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7 months ago
African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
a year ago
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
8 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
2 months ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
over a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
TheCollector
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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a year ago
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
8 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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6 months ago
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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8 months ago
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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a year ago
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The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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5 months ago
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
TheCollector
What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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2 months ago
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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a year ago
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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8 months ago
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
a month ago
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
TheCollector
What Is the Didache?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
TheCollector
Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
4 days ago
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
12 months ago
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
TheCollector
5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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a year ago
TheCollector
Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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2 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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a year ago
TheCollector
Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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3 months ago
TheCollector
New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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4 days ago
TheCollector
The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
a month ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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11 months ago
Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
TheCollector
The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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a year ago
TheCollector
Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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TheCollector
5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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a year ago
Flashbak
1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
TheCollector
7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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