TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Classical Wisdom
6 Ancient Greek and Roman Classics Everyone Should Read
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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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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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
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This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Europe's absent-minded revolution
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Understanding political violence.
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
11 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
7 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
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...
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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TheCollector
How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 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 August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
TheCollector
6 of History’s Biggest Traitors
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
12 months ago
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
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A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
TheCollector
Astrolabes & Sextants: How Our Ancestors Navigated the High Seas
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
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Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Hidden History
The 1968 Utah Sheep Kill
In 1968, a malfunctioning nerve gas test at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah killed several...
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In 1968, a malfunctioning nerve gas test at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah killed several thousand sheep and provoked an outcry. In March 1968, researchers at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah were scheduled to perform three experiments involving a lethal nerve gas known as...
TheCollector
Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
TheCollector
UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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No End Of A Lesson.
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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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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TheCollector
Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
3 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
TheCollector
Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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TheCollector
Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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...
8 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...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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TheCollector
What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
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Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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What Is Philippians About?
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Flashbak
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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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
History Today Feed
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
Flashbak
Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
4 weeks ago
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
a month ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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.
7 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
a month ago
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
TheCollector
The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
9 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Wrong Side of...
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
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a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
Classical Wisdom
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of...
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Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of his adopted city of Philadelphia and the aeronautical industry, and photographs of lightning. Setting out to prove “lightning bolts were not of the zig-zag form pictured by artists”,...
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
Open Culture
The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929)
The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which...
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The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which “skeletons hoof and frolic,” the peak of whose hilarity “is reached when one skeleton plays the spine of another in xylophone fashion, using a pair of thigh bones as hammers.” The...
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Sappho
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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The end of the great order under the Heaven
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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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...
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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The Life of Plato
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Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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9 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
5 months ago
Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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8 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
4 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
10 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
7 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
3 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Do You Listen Well?
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Flashbak
12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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2 months ago
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
11 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
9 months ago
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
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9 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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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...
a month ago
“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...
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...
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
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4 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
7 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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What Is Colossians About?
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Classical Wisdom
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
a year ago
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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History and Myth
a year ago
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Download a 417-Megapixel Panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy—A Decade-Long NASA Project in the Making
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a majestic 417-megapixel panorama of the...
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Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a majestic 417-megapixel panorama of the Andromeda galaxy, located some 2.5 million light-years away from our planet. Taking more than a decade to complete, the photomosaic captures 200 million stars, which is only a...
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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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...
10 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,...
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The Life & Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
3 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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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
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Hidden History
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For...
a week ago
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For the United States, it began with the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But for Asians, the war began on June 7, 1937, at the Marco Polo Bridge in China. The Second...
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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7 months ago
African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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a year ago
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
4 months ago
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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