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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Reality Would Like A Word.
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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How the CCP is Closing China
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
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a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
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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
The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
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over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
Global Inequality...
The third framing
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Wrong Side of...
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
TheCollector
Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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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;...
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Monsters of Mythology
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Wrong Side of...
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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over a year ago
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Flashbak
The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
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Plutarch and Pleasure
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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Celebrate Cicero!
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
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
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
TheCollector
Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
a month ago
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
2 months ago
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
3 weeks ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
7 months ago
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
6 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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‘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
Flashbak
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...
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
6 months ago
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
6 months ago
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
4 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
5 months ago
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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8 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
a month ago
The world that created Caravaggio
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
a week ago
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
TheCollector
Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
8 months ago
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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8 months ago
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
4 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
TheCollector
What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
7 months ago
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
TheCollector
New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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TheCollector
Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
TheCollector
Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
5 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
TheCollector
Who Was Vernon Lee?
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TheCollector
Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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a month ago
TheCollector
Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a week ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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TheCollector
What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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a year ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
TheCollector
10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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TheCollector
Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
TheCollector
What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
TheCollector
Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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a year ago
TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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