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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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When Lightning Strikes... Literally
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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Io Saturnalia!
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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Flashbak
The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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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...
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
5 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...
History Today Feed
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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TheCollector
7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
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The decline and fall of the print media.
TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Prometheus and AI?
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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