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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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The KGB After Stalin
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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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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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Dr Alun Withey
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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Flashbak
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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And some associated reflections.
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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How to Steal From Homer
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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TheCollector
Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
11 months ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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
FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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TheCollector
Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
11 months ago
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
3 weeks ago
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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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.
TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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TheCollector
The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
3 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
a week ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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TheCollector
Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
2 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
2 months ago
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
TheCollector
3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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TheCollector
10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
TheCollector
Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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TheCollector
3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
7 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
Flashbak
At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
6 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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TheCollector
What Is a Film Auteur?
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TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
a month ago
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
TheCollector
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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TheCollector
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
9 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
10 months ago
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
TheCollector
10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
TheCollector
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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TheCollector
The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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TheCollector
The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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