TheCollector
What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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TheCollector
The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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3 days ago
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
2 weeks ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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9 months ago
TheCollector
A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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a week ago
TheCollector
The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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a year ago
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
2 months ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
TheCollector
5 Famous Black Mexicans
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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8 months ago
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...
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
TheCollector
5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
Who Were the 43 Group?
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TheCollector
What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
TheCollector
The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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TheCollector
Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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a month ago
TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
12 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
TheCollector
Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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TheCollector
Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
8 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
TheCollector
5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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10 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
TheCollector
10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
TheCollector
What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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TheCollector
Who Was Walt Whitman?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
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...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
a year ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
History Today Feed
How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
a year ago
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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TheCollector
10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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a year ago
Flashbak
Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
4 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
3 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
TheCollector
Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
a week ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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a year ago
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
4 weeks ago
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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2 months ago
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Last Chance!
a year ago
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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TheCollector
Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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7 months ago
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
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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6 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
TheCollector
Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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a year ago
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
2 weeks ago
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
TheCollector
6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
10 months ago
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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TheCollector
4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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6 months ago
TheCollector
9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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a week ago
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
TheCollector
George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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a year ago
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
8 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
10 months ago
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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2 months ago
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...
8 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...
TheCollector
John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
TheCollector
Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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a year ago
TheCollector
Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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12 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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a year ago
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 months ago
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
TheCollector
A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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TheCollector
The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
2 weeks ago
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
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A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Summary of changes for March 2023
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a year ago
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100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
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A History of the United States Senate
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
over a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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“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‘...
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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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...
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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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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
7 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
7 months ago
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...
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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What Is the Didache?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
4 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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