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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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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,”...
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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....
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Columbine 25 Years On
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Stoicism and Stress
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TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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African History...
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
TheCollector
Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
TheCollector
Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
3 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
TheCollector
Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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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
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
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Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
TheCollector
The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Classical Wisdom
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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What Is the Ides of March?
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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