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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
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So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
TheCollector
Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
TheCollector
Who Were the Axis Powers?
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a year ago
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
3 weeks ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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TheCollector
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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TheCollector
Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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TheCollector
4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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5 months ago
TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
TheCollector
10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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7 months ago
Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
History Today Feed
Putting Mothers on Death Row
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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9 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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3 months ago
TheCollector
German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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5 months ago
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
Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
7 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
TheCollector
Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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TheCollector
Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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a year ago
TheCollector
The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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2 months ago
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
12 months ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
TheCollector
Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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.
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
2 months ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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2 months 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...
TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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6 months ago
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
2 weeks ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
7 months ago
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
TheCollector
The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
6 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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a week ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
10 months ago
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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2 months ago
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
a year ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
TheCollector
Who Were the Samaritans?
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
5 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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a month ago
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
3 weeks ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
2 months ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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3 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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2 days ago
TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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a year ago
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