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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
2 weeks ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
a week ago
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
12 months ago
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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TheCollector
What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Classical Wisdom
Less than ONE Week Left
In Search of Homer Trip Opening
2 months ago
In Search of Homer Trip Opening
TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
a week ago
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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11 months ago
Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
3 days ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
TheCollector
What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
4 months ago
TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
6 months ago
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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TheCollector
Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
4 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Flashbak
The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
6 months ago
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
9 months ago
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
11 months ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
8 months ago
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
Classical Wisdom
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8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
7 months ago
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
11 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
TheCollector
Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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a year ago
Flashbak
Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5...
3 months ago
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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