TheCollector
When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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TheCollector
7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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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...
TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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TheCollector
Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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...
a year ago
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...
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Mothers of the Ancient World
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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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...
11 months ago
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...
History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
a week ago
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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TheCollector
10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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TheCollector
Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
TheCollector
The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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TheCollector
The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
6 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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TheCollector
French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Flashbak
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...
a year ago
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...
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
3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
2 weeks ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
TheCollector
Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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TheCollector
What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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TheCollector
Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
TheCollector
7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
TheCollector
Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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TheCollector
7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
11 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
3 months ago
TheCollector
6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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What Was Jim Crow?
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TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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TheCollector
What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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TheCollector
Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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TheCollector
Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
9 months ago
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
TheCollector
Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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TheCollector
What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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TheCollector
7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
2 weeks ago
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
a week ago
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
11 months ago
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
TheCollector
13 English Words with Greek Origins
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TheCollector
Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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TheCollector
4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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TheCollector
5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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TheCollector
The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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TheCollector
What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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TheCollector
The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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TheCollector
Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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History Today Feed
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
a year ago
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
TheCollector
The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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TheCollector
10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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TheCollector
Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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TheCollector
British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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TheCollector
A History of the United States Senate
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TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
TheCollector
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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TheCollector
Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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History Today Feed
How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
7 months ago
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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TheCollector
Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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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...
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...
TheCollector
The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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TheCollector
Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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TheCollector
Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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TheCollector
Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
4 weeks ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
3 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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TheCollector
The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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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...
TheCollector
The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
TheCollector
Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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TheCollector
What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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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...
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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...
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
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US President or American Caesar?
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
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A Brief History of Chile
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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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...
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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.
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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What to do with Columbus?
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