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Hey everyone!
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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TheCollector
Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
TheCollector
Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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TheCollector
The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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TheCollector
What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
8 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
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American polarisation: part 2
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
a year ago
TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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TheCollector
Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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TheCollector
Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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TheCollector
6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
Plus... Merch!
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TheCollector
Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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TheCollector
Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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TheCollector
Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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TheCollector
How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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TheCollector
The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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TheCollector
Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
A history of the monastic high life
Flashbak
A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
TheCollector
What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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TheCollector
What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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TheCollector
How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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TheCollector
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
9 months ago
Corruption in the Ancient World
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Flashbak
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
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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TheCollector
Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
History Today Feed
Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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TheCollector
The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
10 months ago
TheCollector
These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
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TheCollector
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
What Was the Kido Butai?
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TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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TheCollector
Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
TheCollector
King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
4 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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8 months ago
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