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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
TheCollector
What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
2 months ago
The Silence of the Elephants
TheCollector
Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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4 months ago
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
TheCollector
Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
TheCollector
7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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9 months ago
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
11 months ago
TheCollector
Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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10 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
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
TheCollector
Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
a year ago
The Life and Work of Pheidias
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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4 months ago
TheCollector
French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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6 months ago
TheCollector
4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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2 months ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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a month ago
TheCollector
Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
TheCollector
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
11 months ago
History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
TheCollector
5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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a year ago
TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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8 months ago
TheCollector
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
7 months ago
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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a year ago
TheCollector
The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
TheCollector
The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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a year ago
TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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10 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
5 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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11 months ago
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
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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a year ago
TheCollector
Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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a year ago
TheCollector
The History of Appalachia & Its People
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a year ago
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
10 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
11 months ago
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 months ago
TheCollector
4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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a year ago
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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8 months ago
TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Did Jesus Live in India?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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a year ago
TheCollector
Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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9 months ago
Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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TheCollector
What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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a month ago
TheCollector
When Did the Korean War Start?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
TheCollector
What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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8 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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a month ago
Flashbak
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
2 months ago
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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