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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
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TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
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9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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What Is Solipsism?
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What Is Populism?
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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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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Last Chance
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
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This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
Classical Wisdom
Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Classical Wisdom
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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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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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
3 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
2 months ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
TheCollector
Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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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
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
2 months ago
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
TheCollector
Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
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
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
6 months ago
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
TheCollector
Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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TheCollector
What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
TheCollector
What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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A Collection of...
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Global Inequality...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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