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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Summary Of Changes
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Noodle,...
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 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...
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
TheCollector
Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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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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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
TheCollector
Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
a week ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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What's it going to be, then?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
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a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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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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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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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
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
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Africa's past carved in ivory
History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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History and Myth
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
TheCollector
What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
4 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
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An Epic Start to the New Year
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
2 months ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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