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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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TheCollector
The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
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TheCollector
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Open Culture
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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A Collection of...
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African History...
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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TheCollector
How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Res Obscura
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11 months ago
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Overcoming Bias
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2 months ago
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TheCollector
What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
TheCollector
New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Seamus Heaney
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
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TheCollector
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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The Sense Of An Ending.
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4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
TheCollector
Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Fate and Free Will
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Classical Wisdom
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Beneath the Waves...
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
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TheCollector
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Res Obscura
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Three years late, but historians are always late
TheCollector
Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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My interview with "Atlantico"
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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TheCollector
Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Flashbak
‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
TheCollector
What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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TheCollector
Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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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
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
TheCollector
Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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TheCollector
Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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TheCollector
Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
TheCollector
Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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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.
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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?
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
TheCollector
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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TheCollector
Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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TheCollector
Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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TheCollector
The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
a month ago
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
TheCollector
Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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TheCollector
Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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TheCollector
10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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TheCollector
How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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TheCollector
Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
5 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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TheCollector
What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
TheCollector
8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
a week ago
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
TheCollector
Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
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TheCollector
Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
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And Her Controversial Religion
TheCollector
What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
10 months ago
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
TheCollector
Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
What Is Solipsism?
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TheCollector
18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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TheCollector
Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
TheCollector
When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Flashbak
Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
7 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
5 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
TheCollector
Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
TheCollector
How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
TheCollector
First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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