Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
NEW Event
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
11 months ago
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
TheCollector
What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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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
History Today Feed
Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
2 weeks ago
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
TheCollector
10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
a year ago
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
11 months ago
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
TheCollector
What Is Capoeira?
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
a week ago
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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...
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
8 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
TheCollector
Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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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...
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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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...
9 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...
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
a month ago
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
4 months ago
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
3 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
a month ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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History Today Feed
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
2 months ago
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
10 months ago
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
TheCollector
Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Flashbak
1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
a month ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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7 African Myths About Animals
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
TheCollector
5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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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.
TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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TheCollector
Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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TheCollector
Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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The Electoral College Explained
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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8 months ago
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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a year ago
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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TheCollector
What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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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.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
TheCollector
10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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TheCollector
How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
Flashbak
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...
3 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...
TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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TheCollector
8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
3 months ago
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
a year ago
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
TheCollector
3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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TheCollector
Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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3 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
2 weeks ago
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
5 months ago
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
a year ago
TheCollector
Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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TheCollector
What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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8 months ago
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
6 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
TheCollector
5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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a year ago
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...
TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
8 months ago
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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A Brief History of Chile
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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a year ago
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
4 months ago
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
TheCollector
What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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