Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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Who Was Averroes?
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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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...
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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...
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
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The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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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...
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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...
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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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...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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Who Was Eusebius?
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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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...
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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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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
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My interview with "Atlantico"
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
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Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
a year ago
Belief in the Ancient World
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
7 months ago
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Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Who Was George Eliot?
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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captain what is this
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
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
TheCollector
British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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TheCollector
How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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TheCollector
4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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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...
TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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TheCollector
A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
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".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
3 months ago
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
11 months ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
TheCollector
What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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TheCollector
What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
TheCollector
How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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6 months ago
Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
3 months ago
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
a month ago
TheCollector
Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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What Was Négritude?
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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What Was Organization Todt?
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
7 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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TheCollector
10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
6 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
TheCollector
Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
5 months ago
TheCollector
7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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TheCollector
Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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TheCollector
Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
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TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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a year ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
TheCollector
Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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8 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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TheCollector
4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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a year ago
Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
4 days ago
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
TheCollector
The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
6 months ago
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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TheCollector
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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...
a week ago
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...
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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