TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
TheCollector
The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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12 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
a year ago
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
TheCollector
Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
TheCollector
What’s the History of Gin?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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TheCollector
5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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TheCollector
How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
3 months ago
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
TheCollector
What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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TheCollector
Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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TheCollector
The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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...
Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
TheCollector
Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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TheCollector
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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a year ago
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
5 days ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
5 months ago
TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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a year ago
Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
TheCollector
8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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TheCollector
Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
5 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
7 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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TheCollector
Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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TheCollector
Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
4 months ago
TheCollector
How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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TheCollector
Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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TheCollector
Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is an Existential Crisis?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
TheCollector
Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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6 months ago
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
5 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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TheCollector
How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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8 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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5 days ago
TheCollector
Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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2 days ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
TheCollector
The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
TheCollector
What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
11 months ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
TheCollector
What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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3 weeks ago
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...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
TheCollector
Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
TheCollector
Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
2 weeks ago
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
a year ago
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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7 months ago
CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
a week ago
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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6 months ago
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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TheCollector
5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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a month ago
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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a year ago
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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3 weeks 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...
TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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2 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
TheCollector
Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
TheCollector
Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
TheCollector
Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
a month ago
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
History Today Feed
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
History Today Feed
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
4 days ago
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
TheCollector
6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
5 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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11 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
TheCollector
Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
4 weeks ago
The Art of the Interesting
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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...
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
Flashbak
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
a month ago
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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10 months ago
African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
11 months ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Myths and Metamorphoses
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Summary of changes for February
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Into the Waste Land
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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What Is an Antipope?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
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8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Monsters of Mythology
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
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The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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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...
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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