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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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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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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Hundred Rabbits
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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weird medieval guys
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Hundred Rabbits
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a year ago
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
12 months ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
TheCollector
10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
9 months ago
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
TheCollector
How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
5 days ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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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...
6 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...
TheCollector
Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Who Was Averroes?
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Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches
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JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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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 the History and Significance of May Day?
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
5 months ago
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
TheCollector
4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
3 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
TheCollector
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
2 months ago
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
TheCollector
10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
2 months ago
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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