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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
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over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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American polarisation
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
Classical Wisdom
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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What Is the Didache?
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
9 months ago
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Overcoming Bias
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Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
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TheCollector
Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Summary Of Changes
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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TheCollector
Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
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A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
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What Is Thatcherism?
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History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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TheCollector
This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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TheCollector
Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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TheCollector
Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
TheCollector
What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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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
6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
10 months ago
TheCollector
Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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TheCollector
How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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A Brief History of Chile
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TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
4 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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TheCollector
5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
TheCollector
Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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...
TheCollector
What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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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,...
4 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
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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TheCollector
The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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TheCollector
Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Flashbak
The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
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“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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TheCollector
Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
8 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
TheCollector
It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
10 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
11 months ago
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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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.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
a year ago
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
TheCollector
Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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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...
Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
4 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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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...
10 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...
TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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TheCollector
4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
12 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
TheCollector
Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
a year ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
a year ago
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
TheCollector
Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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TheCollector
John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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TheCollector
5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
2 weeks ago
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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TheCollector
Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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TheCollector
Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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TheCollector
Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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TheCollector
An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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TheCollector
A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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TheCollector
Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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TheCollector
Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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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...
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
3 weeks ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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...
over a year ago
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...
Flashbak
Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
10 months ago
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
TheCollector
Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
a month ago
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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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