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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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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...
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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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...
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Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
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And Her Controversial Religion
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
Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
3 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
weird medieval guys
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Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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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...
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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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
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
TheCollector
Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
TheCollector
Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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
7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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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 …...
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
8 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
TheCollector
5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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