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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
4 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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a week ago
TheCollector
Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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5 months ago
African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
a year ago
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
TheCollector
Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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7 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
TheCollector
Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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3 weeks ago
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
4 months ago
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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4 weeks ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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a month ago
TheCollector
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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11 months ago
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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
History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
TheCollector
Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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a year ago
TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
a month ago
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
2 months ago
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
TheCollector
Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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3 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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3 months ago
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
6 days ago
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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8 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...
a month ago
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...
TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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7 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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a year ago
TheCollector
Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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4 months ago
TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics
Memorial Sales Ends
6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
3 weeks ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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2 weeks ago
Flashbak
Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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a year ago
Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
TheCollector
The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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11 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
3 weeks ago
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
a year ago
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
TheCollector
Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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a year ago
Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
a week ago
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
Flashbak
Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
7 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
TheCollector
10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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