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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Young Technician December, 1957
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Patterns in Humanity
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Man the Hunter
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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A Collection of...
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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A Collection of...
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
TheCollector
The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
7 months ago
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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TheCollector
Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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TheCollector
An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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TheCollector
6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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TheCollector
Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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TheCollector
Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
10 months ago
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
TheCollector
What Is the Didache?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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a month ago
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
2 weeks ago
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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TheCollector
How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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TheCollector
9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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TheCollector
10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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TheCollector
Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
TheCollector
Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
6 months ago
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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TheCollector
4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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TheCollector
The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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TheCollector
10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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TheCollector
Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
TheCollector
10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
TheCollector
Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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2 months ago
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
TheCollector
How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
9 months ago
Corruption in the Ancient World
TheCollector
5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
a year ago
Belief in the Ancient World
TheCollector
10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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10 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
a year ago
State and society on Africa's largest island.
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
4 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
TheCollector
What Was the First Triumvirate?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
TheCollector
6 Assassinations That Changed History
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
TheCollector
Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
2 months ago
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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a year ago
TheCollector
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
5 months ago
TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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TheCollector
What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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“
TheCollector
How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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4 months ago
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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10 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
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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5 months ago
TheCollector
4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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a month ago
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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10 months ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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3 months ago
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