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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Dreams of Space -...
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
TheCollector
The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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a year ago
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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11 months ago
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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a week ago
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
TheCollector
Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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4 months ago
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
TheCollector
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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a month ago
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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a year ago
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
TheCollector
An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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6 months ago
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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a week ago
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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4 months ago
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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2 weeks ago
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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6 months ago
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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a month ago
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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a year ago
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.
a month ago
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Romance Languages?
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a year ago
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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4 months 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
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
7 months ago
But they forget the people and the Street.
TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
2 weeks ago
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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3 days ago
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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2 months ago
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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7 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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7 months ago
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
Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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4 months ago
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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8 months ago
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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9 months ago
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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10 months ago
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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a month ago
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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3 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
TheCollector
10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
10 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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a year ago
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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2 months ago
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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5 months ago
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
7 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
TheCollector
How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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a month ago
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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a year ago
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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9 months ago
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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11 months ago
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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a year ago
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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6 days ago
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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,...
TheCollector
How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
3 weeks ago
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
TheCollector
Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
a year ago
The Life and Work of Pheidias
TheCollector
5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
TheCollector
What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
a week ago
History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
11 months ago
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 8
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
TheCollector
What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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10 months ago
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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a year ago
TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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10 months ago
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
a year ago
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
TheCollector
4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
Flashbak
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 …...
TheCollector
Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
7 months ago
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
TheCollector
British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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a year ago
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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4 weeks ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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6 months ago
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