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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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African History...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Dreams of Space -...
Santa and The Space Men
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying...
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Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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a year ago
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Classical Wisdom
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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A Collection of...
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6 months ago
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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3 weeks ago
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Res Obscura
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
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TheCollector
Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
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a year ago
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
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Trying to Understand...
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Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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Overcoming Bias
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
TheCollector
Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Classical Wisdom
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Secrets of the Scythians
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
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TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
TheCollector
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 days ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
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But striking poses is fun and easy.
Classical Wisdom
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Classical Wisdom
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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TheCollector
Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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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...
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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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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
TheCollector
Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Classical Wisdom
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
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TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Open Culture
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
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TheCollector
The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
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For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
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....
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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...
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Flashbak
Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
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TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
11 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
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Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
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TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
TheCollector
Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
a month ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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6 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
6 months ago
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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10 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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a year ago
TheCollector
Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
a month ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
TheCollector
Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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10 months ago
Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
3 months ago
The Silence of the Elephants
TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
TheCollector
Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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a month ago
TheCollector
Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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a year ago
TheCollector
9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
6 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
Classical Wisdom
Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
Take a Santa Pause
a week ago
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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a year ago
TheCollector
Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
3 months ago
TheCollector
Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
TheCollector
How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
7 months ago
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
TheCollector
A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
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
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
8 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
2 weeks ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
3 weeks ago
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
a week ago
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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a month ago
TheCollector
When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
4 months ago
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...
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
8 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
TheCollector
8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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9 months ago
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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10 months ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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a year ago
TheCollector
Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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a year ago
TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
2 months ago
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
TheCollector
Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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