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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Summary of changes for July
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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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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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
TheCollector
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
TheCollector
Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
7 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
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TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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...
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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...
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
2 days ago
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
6 months ago
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
TheCollector
What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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12 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
a month ago
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
8 months ago
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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11 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
TheCollector
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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4 days ago
TheCollector
What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
TheCollector
What Was the Chaco War?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
3 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
3 weeks ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
4 hours ago
TheCollector
German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Is Kiki Smith?
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
TheCollector
The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
TheCollector
Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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a year ago
TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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9 months ago
TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Makes the City of London Unique?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
5 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
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
4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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a week ago
Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
TheCollector
What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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a month ago
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
a week ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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5 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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a year ago
TheCollector
The History of Appalachia & Its People
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
7 months ago
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
10 months ago
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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8 months ago
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