TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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History Today Feed
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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TheCollector
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
TheCollector
What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
TheCollector
The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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TheCollector
3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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7 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
TheCollector
Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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TheCollector
Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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TheCollector
Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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TheCollector
10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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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...
TheCollector
Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Mothers of the Ancient World
TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
5 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
Flashbak
Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
10 months ago
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
TheCollector
Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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TheCollector
The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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TheCollector
Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
3 days ago
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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TheCollector
Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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TheCollector
Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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TheCollector
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
5 months ago
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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TheCollector
The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
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...
Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
TheCollector
Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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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
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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TheCollector
College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
10 months ago
TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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TheCollector
Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
TheCollector
The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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TheCollector
The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
3 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
TheCollector
When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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TheCollector
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
5 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
TheCollector
What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
TheCollector
Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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TheCollector
A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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TheCollector
The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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TheCollector
Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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TheCollector
Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
a month ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
9 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
TheCollector
The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
6 months ago
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
TheCollector
What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
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TheCollector
How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
TheCollector
An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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TheCollector
11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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TheCollector
How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
TheCollector
The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
TheCollector
Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
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TheCollector
New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
6 days ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
TheCollector
Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
6 days ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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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...
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
a year ago
...and the Origins of the Universe
TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
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Should we pay attention to them?
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TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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African History...
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a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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TheCollector
Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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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...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
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TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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TheCollector
How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
TheCollector
Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
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a month ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
TheCollector
The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
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TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
TheCollector
The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
TheCollector
Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
TheCollector
How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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