TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
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Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
4 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated?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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated?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.
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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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....
TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
A History of the United States Supreme Court
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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TheCollector
10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
TheCollector
10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Patterns in Humanity
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
TheCollector
When Did the Korean War Start?
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Does Marcus Matter?
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
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a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
TheCollector
What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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TheCollector
Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
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But some things are more connected than others.
TheCollector
Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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History Today Feed
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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TheCollector
Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
TheCollector
The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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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...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
TheCollector
5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Some lessons from history and archaeology
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
TheCollector
20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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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...
TheCollector
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
TheCollector
The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Flashbak
Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Res Obscura
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over a year ago
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Classical Wisdom
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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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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Sophocles' Swansong
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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The Lives of Exiles
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
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11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
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6 months ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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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...
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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