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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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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...
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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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.
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Global Inequality...
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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...
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Hundred Rabbits
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Hundred Rabbits
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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4 weeks ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
History Today Feed
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
4 days ago
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
2 weeks ago
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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TheCollector
Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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10 months ago
TheCollector
4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
2 months ago
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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3 months ago
Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
Dreams of Space -...
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...
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
2 days ago
TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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2 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
TheCollector
How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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5 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Scottish Play
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
a month ago
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
TheCollector
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Forgotten US Presidents
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3 months ago
TheCollector
17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
8 months ago
TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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a year ago
TheCollector
The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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a month ago
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
TheCollector
The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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a year ago
TheCollector
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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9 months ago
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
7 months ago
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
10 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
a week ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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9 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
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
TheCollector
World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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2 months ago
Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
a month ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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9 months ago
Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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5 months ago
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
8 months ago
Flashbak
A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
10 months ago
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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10 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
2 weeks ago
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
7 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
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