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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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TheCollector
What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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TheCollector
Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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TheCollector
Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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TheCollector
The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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TheCollector
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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TheCollector
How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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11 months ago
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
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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a month ago
TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
8 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
TheCollector
Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
TheCollector
What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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4 days ago
TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
3 months ago
TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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a year ago
Flashbak
Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
a week 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...
Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
3 weeks ago
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
TheCollector
4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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TheCollector
4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
10 months ago
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
TheCollector
Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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a year ago
Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
2 months ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
a month ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
TheCollector
How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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TheCollector
Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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TheCollector
The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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TheCollector
Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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TheCollector
What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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2 months ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
2 weeks ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
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...
over 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...
TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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TheCollector
5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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TheCollector
10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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a month ago
Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
a month ago
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
2 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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9 months ago
TheCollector
New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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TheCollector
What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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3 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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
What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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11 months ago
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
5 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
3 weeks ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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TheCollector
Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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5 months ago
African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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a year ago
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...
12 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
5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
Flashbak
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 ...
a week ago
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
TheCollector
Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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TheCollector
These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
5 days ago
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
7 months ago
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
Flashbak
Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
a week ago
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead From faces...
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