TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
a month ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
TheCollector
Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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TheCollector
College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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TheCollector
9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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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....
Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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TheCollector
Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
2 months ago
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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TheCollector
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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TheCollector
3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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TheCollector
7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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TheCollector
Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
7 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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TheCollector
Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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TheCollector
9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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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...
Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
TheCollector
How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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TheCollector
5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
2 months ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
4 weeks ago
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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TheCollector
The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Open Culture
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
3 hours ago
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
TheCollector
Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
3 weeks ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
8 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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TheCollector
Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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TheCollector
7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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TheCollector
Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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TheCollector
The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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TheCollector
Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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History Today Feed
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
2 weeks ago
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
6 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
2 weeks ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
5 days ago
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
TheCollector
Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
11 months ago
TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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9 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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TheCollector
What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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TheCollector
Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
3 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
4 months ago
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
TheCollector
10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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9 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
a month ago
The Great Migration to Bluesky
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
TheCollector
What Was the First Written Language?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
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...
TheCollector
A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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6 days ago
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
Classical Wisdom
Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
a year ago
Art of the Hellenistic Period
Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
6 months ago
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...
History Today Feed
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
a year ago
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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3 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
a year ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
TheCollector
Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
7 months ago
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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TheCollector
Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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TheCollector
What Is the Will to Power?
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TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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TheCollector
Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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a month ago
History Today Feed
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
a year ago
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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2 weeks ago
Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
5 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
TheCollector
Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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a year ago
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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TheCollector
What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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5 days ago
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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TheCollector
What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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TheCollector
Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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4 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
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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TheCollector
King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
TheCollector
Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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TheCollector
Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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7 months ago
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
over a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
2 months ago
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
TheCollector
What is the Eye of Ra?
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TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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4 months ago
TheCollector
New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Continue Reading
TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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TheCollector
8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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8 months ago
African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 8
History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
10 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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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...
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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...
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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The Politics of Exhaustion.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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Patterns in Humanity
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Eternal Glory
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Blindspots and Biographies
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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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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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
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Because that's all they can do.
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
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This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
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Bringing History to the Future
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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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...
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
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Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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What Is Capoeira?
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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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...
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Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York...
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“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Patterns in Humanity
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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...
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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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...
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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What makes a good friend?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Summary of changes for June 2023
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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.
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100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Summary of changes for October
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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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...
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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