TheCollector
What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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TheCollector
A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
a year ago
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
6 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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TheCollector
Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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TheCollector
Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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TheCollector
What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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TheCollector
Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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a year ago
African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
3 weeks ago
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
TheCollector
A Brief History of Chile
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TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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TheCollector
What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Shire must be brought to heel
TheCollector
What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
2 months ago
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
History Today Feed
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
a month ago
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
TheCollector
What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
TheCollector
What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
8 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
10 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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TheCollector
Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
Flashbak
‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
TheCollector
What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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TheCollector
What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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TheCollector
Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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TheCollector
Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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TheCollector
Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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TheCollector
History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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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
The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
a week ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
TheCollector
6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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TheCollector
The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
Flashbak
Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
a month ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
TheCollector
Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
5 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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TheCollector
What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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TheCollector
How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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TheCollector
The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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TheCollector
What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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7 months ago
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
Flashbak
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
2 months ago
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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TheCollector
The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
11 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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9 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
a month ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Flashbak
Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
a week ago
TheCollector
3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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TheCollector
A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
4 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
4 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
TheCollector
4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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TheCollector
Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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TheCollector
When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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TheCollector
What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
a week ago
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
TheCollector
Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
8 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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4 months ago
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...
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
Open Culture
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,...
2 weeks ago
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...
Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
3 weeks ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
11 months ago
... and the Fall of the Republic
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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TheCollector
5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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TheCollector
Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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TheCollector
7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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TheCollector
8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
a year ago
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Early Christianity
a year ago
TheCollector
8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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TheCollector
Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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TheCollector
Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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TheCollector
What is the Eye of Ra?
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TheCollector
10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
TheCollector
Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Should we pay attention to them?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
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TheCollector
Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
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Africa's past carved in ivory
Classical Wisdom
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Does Free Will Exist?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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TheCollector
Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
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Please help us not to understand.
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera Mechanism
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
TheCollector
What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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TheCollector
Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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4 months ago
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Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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Does poverty cause violent crime?
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An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
TheCollector
What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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8 months ago
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Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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9 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
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A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
TheCollector
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
TheCollector
3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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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
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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a month ago
weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
CrimethInc.
Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
a month ago
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
8 months ago
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Halloween?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
3 months ago
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