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Summary Of Changes
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
TheCollector
Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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8 months ago
Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
TheCollector
When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About?
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a month ago
Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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11 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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12 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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a month ago
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
Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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5 months ago
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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...
TheCollector
Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
TheCollector
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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a year ago
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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a week ago
weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
8 months ago
TheCollector
Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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6 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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a month ago
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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a year ago
Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
TheCollector
What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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a year 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...
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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4 months ago
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Maccabees?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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a year ago
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...
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
8 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
10 months ago
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
4 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
TheCollector
Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
9 months ago
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
TheCollector
How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
TheCollector
A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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a month ago
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
TheCollector
Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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a year ago
History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
3 weeks ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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