TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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
The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Flashbak
Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
TheCollector
What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
TheCollector
Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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TheCollector
Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
TheCollector
When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
a year ago
journal of African cities chapter 9
Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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TheCollector
Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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When Was D-Day?
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
TheCollector
4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
a month ago
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
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
TheCollector
How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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TheCollector
What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
TheCollector
What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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TheCollector
What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
a year ago
...and the Origins of the Universe
History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
11 months ago
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
TheCollector
10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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TheCollector
Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
TheCollector
What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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TheCollector
Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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TheCollector
Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
TheCollector
Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
TheCollector
“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
TheCollector
Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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TheCollector
What Is an Antipope?
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TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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TheCollector
5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
TheCollector
Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
Plus... Merch!
a year ago
History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
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JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
TheCollector
6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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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
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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CrimethInc.
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...
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
TheCollector
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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TheCollector
6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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TheCollector
What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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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
Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
TheCollector
Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a week ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
TheCollector
When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
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TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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TheCollector
Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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TheCollector
Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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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
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
TheCollector
Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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TheCollector
Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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TheCollector
What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
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