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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
5 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
TheCollector
Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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TheCollector
Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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TheCollector
Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
a month ago
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
TheCollector
How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
7 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
TheCollector
Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
a week ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
TheCollector
7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
a year ago
TheCollector
The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
a year ago
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
TheCollector
Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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a year ago
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The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
7 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
7 hours ago
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
TheCollector
New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
TheCollector
The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
a year ago
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
2 weeks ago
My interview with "Atlantico"
History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
a month ago
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
a month ago
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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a year ago
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