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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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5 months ago
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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2 weeks ago
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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7 months ago
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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7 months ago
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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6 months ago
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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8 months ago
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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3 months ago
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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4 months ago
Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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4 weeks ago
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
a month ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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a year ago
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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a month ago
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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6 months ago
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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8 months ago
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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9 months ago
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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a year ago
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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3 months ago
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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11 months ago
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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9 months ago
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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2 months ago
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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6 months ago
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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9 months ago
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
3 months ago
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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7 months ago
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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11 months ago
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
4 months ago
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Mothers of the Ancient World
Flashbak
Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
2 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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a year ago
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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11 months ago
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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2 months ago
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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a year ago
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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a year ago
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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6 months 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.
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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a year ago
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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2 weeks ago
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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a year ago
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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a year ago
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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3 months ago
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
6 months ago
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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6 months ago
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
2 days ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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7 months ago
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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10 months ago
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
a month ago
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
5 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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9 months ago
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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11 months ago
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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2 months ago
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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6 months ago
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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...
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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...
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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9 months ago
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Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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3 months ago
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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8 months ago
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
a month ago
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
7 hours ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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2 months ago
Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
4 days ago
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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.
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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9 months ago
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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10 months ago
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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11 months ago
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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7 months ago
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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10 months ago
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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11 months ago
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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a year ago
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
4 weeks ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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