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What’s the History of Gin?
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
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11 months ago
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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JamesHoare
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TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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What Is Voguing?
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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When Lightning Strikes... Literally
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a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
4 days ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
TheCollector
5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Flashbak
London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
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And fiddling won't fix it.
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
Flashbak
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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7 African Myths About Animals
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Open Culture
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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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
2 months ago
TheCollector
Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
History Today Feed
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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TheCollector
Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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