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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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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...
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
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A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Moon Base (1959)
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
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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...
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
TheCollector
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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TheCollector
How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
5 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
TheCollector
Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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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...
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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TheCollector
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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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
What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“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‘...
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
a month ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
4 weeks ago
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...
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
TheCollector
Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
TheCollector
7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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TheCollector
What Was the First Written Language?
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
7 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
TheCollector
Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
4 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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3 days ago
TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
TheCollector
Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
a year ago
TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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11 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
2 months ago
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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What Was the Chaco War?
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TheCollector
9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
11 months ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
6 months ago
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
2 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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4 months ago
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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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...
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
6 days ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
4 months ago
African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
2 weeks ago
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
The Antikythera Mechanism
TheCollector
8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
11 months ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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