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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Hey everyone!
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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What Is the Will to Power?
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
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Bringing History to the Future
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Bringing History to the Future
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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What's it going to be, then?
TheCollector
Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Beneath the Waves...
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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A Strange Defeat.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Global Inequality...
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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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...
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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...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Do You Listen Well?
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
7 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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TheCollector
10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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TheCollector
Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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TheCollector
Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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TheCollector
Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
TheCollector
Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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TheCollector
5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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TheCollector
Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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TheCollector
How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
TheCollector
Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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3 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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TheCollector
An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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11 months ago
African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
a month ago
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
a year ago
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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TheCollector
How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
8 months ago
Flashbak
A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
10 months ago
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
10 Forgotten US Presidents
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TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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TheCollector
A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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TheCollector
Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
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
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
TheCollector
Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
TheCollector
The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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TheCollector
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
a month ago
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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TheCollector
What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
Who Were the Pilgrims?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
7 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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TheCollector
Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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TheCollector
Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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TheCollector
Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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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
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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TheCollector
6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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TheCollector
5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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TheCollector
How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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TheCollector
Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
TheCollector
What’s the History of Gin?
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9 months ago
African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
TheCollector
Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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a year ago
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