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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
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TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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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...
African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
TheCollector
How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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What Is Capoeira?
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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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...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
TheCollector
10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Global Inequality...
The third framing
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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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
How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Classical Wisdom
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Classics Gifts!
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
TheCollector
Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern?
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Classical Wisdom
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Summary of changes for September 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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Summary of changes for March 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
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And what happens when we don’t?
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
TheCollector
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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The Ancient Novel
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
TheCollector
Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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TheCollector
British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
TheCollector
UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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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...
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
TheCollector
5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
TheCollector
Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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TheCollector
7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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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
Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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TheCollector
Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
a year ago
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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
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
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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TheCollector
What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
2 weeks ago
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
TheCollector
5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
11 months ago
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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TheCollector
Who Is Kiki Smith?
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TheCollector
What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
a month ago
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
TheCollector
What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
TheCollector
Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
10 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
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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...
TheCollector
Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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TheCollector
What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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TheCollector
The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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TheCollector
Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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History Today Feed
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
a month ago
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
TheCollector
How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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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
Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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TheCollector
What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
3 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
Classical Wisdom
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
2 months ago
In Search of Homer Trip Opening
TheCollector
The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
a week ago
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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