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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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No Meta Status Orgs
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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The Essential Greeks
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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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...
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
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Ancient Greek Art
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Wrong Side of...
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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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...
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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...
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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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...
11 months ago
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...
History Today Feed
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“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...
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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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,...
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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TheCollector
Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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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...
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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.
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
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History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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TheCollector
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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TheCollector
Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Who Was Eusebius?
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History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
TheCollector
Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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TheCollector
Who Was George Hodel?
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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TheCollector
8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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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...
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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...
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Is the Will to Power?
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History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
History Today Feed
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
TheCollector
How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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TheCollector
When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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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...
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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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...
TheCollector
What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
3 weeks ago
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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TheCollector
Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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TheCollector
Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
TheCollector
Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
TheCollector
10 South American Artists You Should Know
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History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
6 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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TheCollector
Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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TheCollector
The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
Flashbak
Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
3 weeks ago
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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TheCollector
Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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