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Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Out Of Control.
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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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...
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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What’s the History of Gin?
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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But they forget the people and the Street.
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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“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...
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Dr Alun Withey
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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Wrong Side of...
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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Patterns in Humanity
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7 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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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...
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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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...
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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a year ago
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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...
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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a month ago
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
a month ago
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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9 months ago
TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
TheCollector
Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
a week ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
TheCollector
Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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a year ago
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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8 months ago
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
11 months ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
TheCollector
What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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a year ago
TheCollector
An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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a year ago
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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5 months ago
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
a month ago
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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9 months ago
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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a year ago
TheCollector
St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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a year ago
TheCollector
Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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9 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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2 months ago
Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
4 days ago
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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3 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
4 months ago
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
2 months ago
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
TheCollector
Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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8 months ago
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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a year ago
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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7 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
a month ago
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
College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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10 months ago
TheCollector
J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient Novel
a year ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
4 weeks ago
The Great Migration to Bluesky
TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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10 months ago
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
TheCollector
Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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a year ago
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
TheCollector
What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
TheCollector
Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
8 months ago
TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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a year ago
TheCollector
3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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3 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
TheCollector
Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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