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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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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
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
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How to Revive Wassailing
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
TheCollector
Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
TheCollector
The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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TheCollector
Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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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...
Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
TheCollector
8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
A history of the monastic high life
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
a year ago
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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TheCollector
A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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TheCollector
Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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...
TheCollector
Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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TheCollector
Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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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...
9 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...
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
TheCollector
Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
2 weeks ago
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
TheCollector
Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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