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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
TheCollector
Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
a month ago
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
10 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
TheCollector
5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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TheCollector
What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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TheCollector
Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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TheCollector
The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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a year ago
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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A History of the United States Senate
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
4 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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...
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
TheCollector
What Was the Berlin Conference?
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TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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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...
3 weeks ago
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...
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
5 months ago
History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
2 weeks ago
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
TheCollector
7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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TheCollector
The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
2 months ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
TheCollector
How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
10 months ago
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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TheCollector
Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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TheCollector
5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
2 months ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
3 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
11 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
2 months ago
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
TheCollector
When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
10 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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