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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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The Mystery of Morpheus
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Who is the God of Dreams?
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Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Another Of My Essays in French
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Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
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11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Should We Be More Naked?
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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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...
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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The End of Power Projection?
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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2 weeks ago
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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a week ago
TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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a year ago
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
History Today Feed
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
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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a year ago
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
4 months ago
TheCollector
Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
4 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
9 months ago
TheCollector
Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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a year ago
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
6 months ago
TheCollector
History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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5 months ago
TheCollector
New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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3 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
Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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a year 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?
TheCollector
7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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2 days ago
TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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7 months ago
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
5 days ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
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:...
3 weeks ago
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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a week ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
TheCollector
Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
TheCollector
The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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2 months 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
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
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...
African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
3 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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a week ago
TheCollector
Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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2 days ago
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
TheCollector
7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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10 months ago
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