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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
TheCollector
The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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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...
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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
Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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Maths, Art, and the Moon
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Global Inequality...
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Classical Wisdom
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Animals of the Ancient World
6 months ago
Animals of the Ancient World
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...
TheCollector
4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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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
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Classical Wisdom
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Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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TheCollector
Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
TheCollector
How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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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...
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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
Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
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African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
TheCollector
5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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What Is Capoeira?
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Classical Wisdom
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
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weird medieval guys
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
TheCollector
King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Classical Wisdom
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Petra and Passports
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TheCollector
KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
TheCollector
4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
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American polarisation: part 2
TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
TheCollector
What Is an Existential Crisis?
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a year ago
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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