Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
5 days ago
Another of my essays in French.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
6 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the...
2 days ago
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
TheCollector
Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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TheCollector
The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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TheCollector
Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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TheCollector
What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
TheCollector
How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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TheCollector
5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
9 months ago
TheCollector
How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
4 months ago
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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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
TheCollector
Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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TheCollector
Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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a year ago
weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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TheCollector
10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
TheCollector
Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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TheCollector
Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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What Is Nestorianism?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
3 months ago
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
over a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
3 weeks ago
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
2 months ago
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
2 months ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
6 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
11 months ago
TheCollector
Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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TheCollector
Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
12 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
TheCollector
Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
6 months ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
TheCollector
Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
TheCollector
Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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TheCollector
Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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TheCollector
Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
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
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
The Antikythera Mechanism
TheCollector
Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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TheCollector
4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
2 weeks ago
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
a week ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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TheCollector
How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
a year ago
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
11 months ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
TheCollector
7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
Seats Still Available
2 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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TheCollector
Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
8 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
TheCollector
Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Classical Wisdom
Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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What Is the Will to Power?
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
2 months ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
3 days ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
7 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
TheCollector
9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
a year ago
an island in the maelstrom
TheCollector
What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
10 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
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“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead From faces...
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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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...
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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...
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
TheCollector
10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
a year ago
journal of African cities chapter 9
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
a month ago
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
5 months ago
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
2 months ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
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