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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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9 months ago
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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11 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
TheCollector
Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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2 months ago
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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11 months ago
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
TheCollector
Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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a month ago
TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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11 months ago
Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
2 months ago
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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5 days ago
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
8 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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a year ago
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),...
a month ago
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.
Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
3 weeks ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
TheCollector
Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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4 months ago
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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11 months ago
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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11 months ago
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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a year ago
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
a month ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
TheCollector
What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
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.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
TheCollector
5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
a month ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
TheCollector
8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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6 months ago
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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TheCollector
Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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a year ago
Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
a week ago
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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3 months ago
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
TheCollector
When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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4 months ago
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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7 months ago
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
a year ago
TheCollector
How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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a year ago
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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a year ago
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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a year ago
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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a year ago
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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5 months ago
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How Did Railways Help Standardize Time in Britain?
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a week ago
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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9 months ago
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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9 months ago
African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
a week ago
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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a year ago
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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7 months ago
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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a year ago
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
TheCollector
Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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a year ago
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
3 weeks ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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7 months ago
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