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https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
a week ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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TheCollector
Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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TheCollector
The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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7 African Myths About Animals
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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History Today Feed
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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TheCollector
Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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TheCollector
What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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TheCollector
Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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TheCollector
When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
TheCollector
Who Was George Eliot?
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TheCollector
Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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8 months ago
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
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
TheCollector
What Makes the City of London Unique?
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TheCollector
Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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6 months ago
Flashbak
1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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TheCollector
Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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a year ago
TheCollector
Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
9 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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a year ago
TheCollector
Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
TheCollector
Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
TheCollector
Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
10 months ago
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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10 months ago
Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
a year ago
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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6 months ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
a month ago
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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2 months ago
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...
TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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6 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
TheCollector
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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5 months ago
TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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4 months ago
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
5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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5 months ago
TheCollector
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
11 months ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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