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Dreams of Space -...
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
TheCollector
What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
8 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
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Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
TheCollector
How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
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Global Inequality...
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
TheCollector
Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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TheCollector
Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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TheCollector
When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
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...and the Origins of the Universe
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
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Africa's past carved in ivory
Classical Wisdom
Beyond Stoicism
New Event: January 7th, 2025
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New Event: January 7th, 2025
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary 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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TheCollector
‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
5 months ago
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
TheCollector
7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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6 months ago
Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
a month ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
3 months ago
The Silence of the Elephants
TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Flashbak
1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
9 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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TheCollector
What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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
The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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TheCollector
10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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TheCollector
How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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TheCollector
King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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TheCollector
Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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TheCollector
What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
2 weeks ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
TheCollector
10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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TheCollector
Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
11 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
6 days ago
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
TheCollector
What Was the Kido Butai?
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
TheCollector
Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
History Today Feed
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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...
5 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...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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TheCollector
7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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TheCollector
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
10 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
TheCollector
Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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a year ago
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.
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
3 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
TheCollector
Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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7 months ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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a year ago
Open Culture
The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
yesterday
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
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