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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Summary Of Changes
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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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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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Should we pay attention to them?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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African History...
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Summary of changes for August 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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Myths and Metamorphoses
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
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A history of the monastic high life
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
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Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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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
What Is Voguing?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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a year ago
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
TheCollector
Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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TheCollector
What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
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?
History Today Feed
The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
Flashbak
Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
8 months ago
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
6 months ago
TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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TheCollector
What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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TheCollector
Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
4 months ago
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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TheCollector
Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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TheCollector
Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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TheCollector
“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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TheCollector
Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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TheCollector
Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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TheCollector
Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
a month ago
TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
TheCollector
Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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TheCollector
Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
History Today Feed
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
4 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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TheCollector
Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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a year ago
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
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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TheCollector
The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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8 months ago
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
African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
a year ago
journal of African cities chapter 9
TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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TheCollector
Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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TheCollector
Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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TheCollector
The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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TheCollector
How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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TheCollector
Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 months ago
TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
TheCollector
Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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TheCollector
Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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TheCollector
Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
TheCollector
Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
8 months ago
TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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TheCollector
What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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TheCollector
Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
a week ago
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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TheCollector
London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
a week ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
TheCollector
What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
6 months ago
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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a year 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
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
TheCollector
How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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TheCollector
When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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TheCollector
What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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TheCollector
Who Was George Eliot?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
TheCollector
4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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TheCollector
Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
TheCollector
The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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9 months ago
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