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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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And Those Like Him?
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Patterns in Humanity
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
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The Sense Of An Ending.
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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The Death of Clive of India
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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Classical Wisdom
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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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...
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‘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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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Who Was Averroes?
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Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
TheCollector
Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Returns!
11 months ago
The Essential Greeks Returns!
Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
5 days ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
TheCollector
Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
8 months ago
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
TheCollector
Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
TheCollector
Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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a year ago
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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TheCollector
What Was Jim Crow?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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a year ago
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
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
TheCollector
Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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TheCollector
How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
8 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
TheCollector
5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
TheCollector
What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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9 months ago
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
a year ago
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
a month ago
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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TheCollector
Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
a year ago
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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3 months ago
TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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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
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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a year ago
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
11 months ago
Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
TheCollector
Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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7 months ago
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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