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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
TheCollector
A History of the US House of Representatives
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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6 months 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,...
TheCollector
Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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10 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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a month ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
3 weeks ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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a year ago
Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
TheCollector
Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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2 days ago
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
8 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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11 months ago
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
TheCollector
Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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a week ago
TheCollector
The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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4 months ago
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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4 months ago
Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
a month ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
3 days ago
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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a year ago
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
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...
TheCollector
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
7 months ago
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
TheCollector
Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
11 months ago
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
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...
TheCollector
Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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a year ago
Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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5 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
10 months ago
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
TheCollector
Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
6 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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10 months ago
TheCollector
8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
7 months ago
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
a week ago
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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11 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
TheCollector
Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
7 months ago
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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11 months ago
TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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8 months ago
TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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8 months ago
Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
TheCollector
6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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4 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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a year ago
TheCollector
Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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a month ago
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