Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
TheCollector
New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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TheCollector
The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Open Culture
Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
a week ago
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John Lydon, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, former Woody Guthrie impersonator Bob Dylan.… Luckily for me, this ain’t just fantasy baseball; at various times,...
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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TheCollector
10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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TheCollector
Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
2 months ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
TheCollector
What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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2 months ago
Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
TheCollector
Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
5 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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TheCollector
The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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TheCollector
Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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TheCollector
Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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TheCollector
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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TheCollector
Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
7 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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...
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
8 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
TheCollector
Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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TheCollector
Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
8 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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TheCollector
Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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TheCollector
10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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TheCollector
The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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5 months 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...
2 months 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:
Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
3 months ago
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
TheCollector
How Are Art and Science Related?
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TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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TheCollector
5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
10 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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TheCollector
How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
10 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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TheCollector
Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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TheCollector
5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
a month ago
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Flashbak
The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
TheCollector
Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
TheCollector
Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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TheCollector
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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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...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
7 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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
Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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TheCollector
How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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TheCollector
Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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TheCollector
5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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TheCollector
Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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TheCollector
How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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TheCollector
Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
5 days ago
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
TheCollector
5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
TheCollector
What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
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TheCollector
The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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TheCollector
Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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TheCollector
The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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History Today Feed
France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
a year ago
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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TheCollector
The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
8 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
11 months ago
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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TheCollector
America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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TheCollector
Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
7 months ago
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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TheCollector
What Is the History of the Blues?
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TheCollector
Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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TheCollector
What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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TheCollector
London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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TheCollector
What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
What Is Theodicy?
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
3 months ago
Heraclitus against Parmenides
TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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a month ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
5 months ago
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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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
TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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TheCollector
A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
7 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Santa and The Space Men
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying...
a week ago
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention.
Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
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
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
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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TheCollector
3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
7 months ago
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
4 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Philosopher Kings
11 months ago
Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
Flashbak
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...
a year ago
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...
Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
3 weeks ago
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Do Coincidences Mean Anything? Exploring Carl Jung’s Notion of Synchronicity
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Flashbak
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
9 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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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....
3 weeks ago
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...
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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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...
11 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,...
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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The Philippine-American War: The US’s First “Vietnam”
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
6 days ago
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
a month ago
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
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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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
9 months ago
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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TheCollector
Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
7 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
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An indispensable organization
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
2 months ago
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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