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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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The Newer World Order.
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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The Modern World Is Boring.
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
Classical Wisdom
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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6 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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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...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
7 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
11 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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And the Palace where it was found...
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Why is medieval art so weird?
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
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Classical Wisdom
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Beware the Lides of March
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Beware the Lides of March
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Getting our events straight...
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
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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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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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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.
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
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How can we train Resilience?
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
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Who Was Tertullian?
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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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...
History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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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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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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?
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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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...
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“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...
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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The Life of Plato
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
8 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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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...
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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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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Prometheus and AI?
2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of 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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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Love, love, love
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
4 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
2 months ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
TheCollector
Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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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
Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
4 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
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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...
9 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
2 months ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
11 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
9 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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