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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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The Past Is Another Country.
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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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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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The True Knights Templar
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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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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
TheCollector
Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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a week ago
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
11 months ago
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
a month ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
6 months ago
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
3 weeks ago
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
What Culture Can You Trust?
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
3 days ago
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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9 months ago
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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4 months ago
Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
3 months ago
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
TheCollector
8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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8 months ago
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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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
Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
9 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
8 months ago
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
TheCollector
What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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TheCollector
10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
a month ago
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
TheCollector
Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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a year ago
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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9 months ago
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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5 months ago
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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4 months ago
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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6 months ago
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
4 months ago
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
TheCollector
12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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3 weeks ago
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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10 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
Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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9 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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a year ago
Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
7 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
Flashbak
The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
a week ago
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
TheCollector
The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
a month ago
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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10 months ago
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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a year ago
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...
3 weeks 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,...
TheCollector
Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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a year ago
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...
a month ago
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...
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
TheCollector
Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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a year ago
TheCollector
Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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a month ago
History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
9 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
2 weeks ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
4 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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5 months ago
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