TheCollector
Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
NEW Event
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TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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And stop saying "it's not fair!"
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
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On cartography as historical argument
TheCollector
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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TheCollector
Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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TheCollector
What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
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The First Roman Empress and More...
History Today Feed
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
9 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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TheCollector
5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
a week ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
TheCollector
Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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TheCollector
Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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TheCollector
Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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TheCollector
6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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TheCollector
Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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a year ago
Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
TheCollector
The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
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a year ago
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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TheCollector
The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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.
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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TheCollector
What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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TheCollector
Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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TheCollector
Who Were the Maccabees?
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TheCollector
Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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TheCollector
How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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TheCollector
5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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TheCollector
Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
TheCollector
Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
TheCollector
Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
TheCollector
4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
11 months ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Flashbak
The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
TheCollector
Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Returns!
11 months ago
The Essential Greeks Returns!
TheCollector
What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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5 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
TheCollector
10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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TheCollector
The History of Appalachia & Its People
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TheCollector
What Was the First Triumvirate?
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TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
TheCollector
Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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TheCollector
Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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TheCollector
Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
6 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
TheCollector
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
TheCollector
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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TheCollector
The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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TheCollector
The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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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
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
TheCollector
Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
2 months ago
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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TheCollector
Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
TheCollector
Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
10 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
TheCollector
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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TheCollector
A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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TheCollector
Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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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.)...
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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Do people actually disagree that much?
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
Global Inequality...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Trying to Understand...
The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
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12 months ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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TheCollector
5 Military Geniuses From History
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Featuring Stephen Fry!
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
TheCollector
The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
TheCollector
What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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TheCollector
Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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TheCollector
5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
TheCollector
13 English Words with Greek Origins
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TheCollector
How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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Flashbak
Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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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...
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
TheCollector
10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
11 months ago
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
TheCollector
5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
a month ago
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
a week ago
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
7 months ago
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
TheCollector
Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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TheCollector
Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Flashbak
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 Sayed Idries Shah?
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
5 days ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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