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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
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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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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TheCollector
Who Was Walt Whitman?
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Typhoons and mold
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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11 months ago
Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
7 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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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.
TheCollector
Did Jesus Live in India?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
TheCollector
7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
TheCollector
Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Philosophy and Children
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
8 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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TheCollector
10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Classical Wisdom
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Plutarch and Pleasure
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
8 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
TheCollector
8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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TheCollector
Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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What Is the Didache?
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
Flashbak
Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
7 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
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9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
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TheCollector
Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
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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.
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
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This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
Wrong Side of...
Leaving behind the history written in letters of blood
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
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Trying to Understand...
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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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...
TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 days ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
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Summary of changes for January
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over a year ago
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
8 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
TheCollector
What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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