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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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No Left Turn
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TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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The Many Roads to Rome
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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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...
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Philosophy and Children
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
TheCollector
Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Wrong Side of...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
TheCollector
The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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JamesHoare
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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What Is Thatcherism?
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
Tjaart’s Substack
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
TheCollector
Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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