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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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an island to oneself
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Bringing History to the Future
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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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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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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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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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
5 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
9 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
7 months ago
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
6 days ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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2 months ago
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
9 months ago
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
TheCollector
Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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a year ago
TheCollector
Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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2 months ago
TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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3 months ago
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
a month ago
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
TheCollector
Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
Plus... Merch!
a year ago
TheCollector
From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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7 months ago
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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9 months ago
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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8 months ago
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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9 months ago
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
TheCollector
Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
8 months ago
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
a month ago
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
TheCollector
The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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11 months ago
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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2 months ago
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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5 months ago
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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5 months ago
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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a year ago
Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
a month ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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a year ago
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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4 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
6 months ago
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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3 weeks ago
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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11 months ago
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
TheCollector
What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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a year ago
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...
TheCollector
How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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a week ago
TheCollector
Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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7 months ago
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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a year ago
TheCollector
19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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2 months ago
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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8 months ago
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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11 months ago
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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3 months ago
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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10 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...
Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
3 days ago
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
TheCollector
10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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8 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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a month ago
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What Is the Didache?
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10 months ago
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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7 months ago
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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a year ago
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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2 months ago
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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8 months ago
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
a month ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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What Is Populism?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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a year ago
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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5 months ago
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
TheCollector
The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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12 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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a year ago
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