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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Dream to Meet(1958)
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Summary Of Changes
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Moon Base (1959)
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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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...
TheCollector
The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Classical Wisdom
James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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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 Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
3 weeks ago
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
TheCollector
The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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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
Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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TheCollector
David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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TheCollector
The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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TheCollector
Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
8 months ago
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
TheCollector
Who Was Tertullian?
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TheCollector
The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Flashbak
Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
a year ago
Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
2 months ago
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
4 months ago
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
6 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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TheCollector
How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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TheCollector
10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
a year ago
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
TheCollector
What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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TheCollector
The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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TheCollector
What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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a year ago
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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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
TheCollector
7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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TheCollector
7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
TheCollector
UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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TheCollector
“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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TheCollector
A (Brief) History of the IRA
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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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...
Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
a week ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
TheCollector
The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
5 months ago
TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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TheCollector
What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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History Today Feed
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
6 months ago
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
TheCollector
How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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TheCollector
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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TheCollector
How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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7 months ago
Flashbak
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....
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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TheCollector
Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
TheCollector
10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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a month ago
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
a month ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
TheCollector
Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.