TheCollector
What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
TheCollector
Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
TheCollector
“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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TheCollector
How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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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...
History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
a month ago
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
TheCollector
Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
TheCollector
Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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TheCollector
Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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TheCollector
Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
TheCollector
MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
TheCollector
“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
TheCollector
What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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TheCollector
Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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TheCollector
How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
9 months ago
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
a year ago
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
5 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
3 months ago
TheCollector
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
TheCollector
6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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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 Pompeii So Important?
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TheCollector
Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
TheCollector
Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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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
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
TheCollector
10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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TheCollector
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
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Do people actually disagree that much?
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
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Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
Classical Wisdom
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Ancient Podcasts
11 months ago
History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
2 months ago
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
TheCollector
Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
TheCollector
How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
8 months ago
TheCollector
3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
2 weeks ago
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
2 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
Flashbak
‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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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.
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
TheCollector
4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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The Silence of the Elephants
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
a year ago
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
TheCollector
Who Were the 43 Group?
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
2 weeks ago
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TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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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...
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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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...
2 days 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...
TheCollector
The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
TheCollector
The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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TheCollector
Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
TheCollector
Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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TheCollector
The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
TheCollector
The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
3 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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TheCollector
Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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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?
History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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...
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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...
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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Should we pay attention to them?
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
a year ago
State and society on Africa's largest island.
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...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
TheCollector
An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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TheCollector
The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
TheCollector
Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
TheCollector
Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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TheCollector
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
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TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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TheCollector
13 English Words with Greek Origins
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TheCollector
What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient Novel
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TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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