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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Beware the Lides of March
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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 year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
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I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Dreams of Space -...
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Classical Wisdom
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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What is Modernity?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Dreams of Space -...
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Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
Global Inequality...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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TheCollector
Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
TheCollector
The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
11 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
TheCollector
The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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TheCollector
9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
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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...
TheCollector
Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
9 months ago
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
Flashbak
Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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TheCollector
3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
2 months ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
TheCollector
The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
TheCollector
The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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TheCollector
10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
7 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Flashbak
Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
2 weeks ago
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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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
TheCollector
Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
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What Is Gnosticism?
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
TheCollector
Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
TheCollector
Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
7 months ago
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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TheCollector
Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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4 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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