Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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a year ago
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
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
a month ago
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
Flashbak
12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
a month ago
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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.
TheCollector
Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Upcoming Events
So you're in the know...
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
TheCollector
6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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TheCollector
How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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TheCollector
What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
10 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
History Today Feed
Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
a month ago
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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TheCollector
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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TheCollector
8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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TheCollector
How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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TheCollector
7 African Myths About Animals
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History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Classical Wisdom
Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
a month ago
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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TheCollector
Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
a week ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
Flashbak
Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
3 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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TheCollector
How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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TheCollector
The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Early Christianity
12 months ago
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
6 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
a month ago
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
TheCollector
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Who Was Tertullian?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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TheCollector
How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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TheCollector
The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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TheCollector
The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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TheCollector
10 South American Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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11 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
a week ago
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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TheCollector
Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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TheCollector
Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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TheCollector
Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
5 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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TheCollector
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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9 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
7 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
TheCollector
The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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TheCollector
Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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TheCollector
10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
TheCollector
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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TheCollector
Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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TheCollector
Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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TheCollector
10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
7 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
TheCollector
History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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TheCollector
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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TheCollector
Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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TheCollector
Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
4 weeks ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Trying to Understand...
The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
10 months ago
But can they get their heads round it?
TheCollector
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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TheCollector
Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
TheCollector
Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
TheCollector
How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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TheCollector
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Important Notification
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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TheCollector
British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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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.
Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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TheCollector
Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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TheCollector
5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Global Inequality...
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Patterns in Humanity
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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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How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
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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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
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And Her Controversial Religion
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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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.”...
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“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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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
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An experiment with historical simulation
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
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It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
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Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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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...
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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