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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Hey everyone!
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
2 days ago
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
TheCollector
5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
11 months ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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a week ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
5 months ago
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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a month ago
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
5 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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3 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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a year ago
TheCollector
It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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3 weeks ago
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...
Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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a year ago
TheCollector
Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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6 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
TheCollector
The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
8 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
TheCollector
Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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a month ago
TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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a year ago
Flashbak
Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
TheCollector
6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Walt Whitman?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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7 months ago
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
4 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
TheCollector
7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
TheCollector
The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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a year ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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8 months ago
TheCollector
New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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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
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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a month ago
TheCollector
Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
3 days ago
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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11 months ago
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...
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
TheCollector
The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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3 weeks ago
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
TheCollector
What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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9 months ago
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
TheCollector
Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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a month ago
TheCollector
4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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5 months ago
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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4 months ago
TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
a month ago
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
TheCollector
Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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8 months ago
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
Who Was Clement of Rome?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
9 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
TheCollector
What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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5 months ago
TheCollector
7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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9 months ago
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