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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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What Are Conlangs?
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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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...
Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
TheCollector
Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
TheCollector
The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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4 months ago
TheCollector
New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
a year ago
What's it going to be, then?
TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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a year ago
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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TheCollector
10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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a year ago
Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
11 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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a year ago
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
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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9 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
TheCollector
7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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TheCollector
Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
2 weeks ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
History Today Feed
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
a month ago
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
TheCollector
Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
11 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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a month ago
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
TheCollector
How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
4 months ago
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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...
Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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11 months ago
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.
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
a week ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
a year ago
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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7 months ago
Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
6 months ago
TheCollector
Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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TheCollector
5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
4 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
TheCollector
8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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9 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: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
TheCollector
La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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TheCollector
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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a year ago
TheCollector
1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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TheCollector
Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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TheCollector
Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
7 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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9 months ago
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
TheCollector
Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who Was George Hodel?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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9 months ago
TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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6 months ago
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
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