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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 Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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But striking poses is fun and easy.
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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“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...
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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CrimethInc.
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
TheCollector
The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
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9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
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8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
Patterns in Humanity
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
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a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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9 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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Classical Wisdom
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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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...
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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TheCollector
Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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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...
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
Patterns in Humanity
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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weird medieval guys
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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History Today Feed
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
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TheCollector
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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TheCollector
Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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Classical Wisdom
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Plato on Political Polarization
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Plato on Political Polarization
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
a year ago
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
TheCollector
5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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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...
A Collection of...
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...
Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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TheCollector
The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Global Inequality...
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5 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
TheCollector
10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Wrong Side of...
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2 months ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
5 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
2 months ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
5 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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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 Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
TheCollector
What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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TheCollector
What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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What's it going to be, then?
Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
4 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
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TheCollector
5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Who Was Julian?
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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...
Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
What Is Voguing?
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TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
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TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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TheCollector
What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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TheCollector
Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
3 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Monsters of Mythology
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TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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TheCollector
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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TheCollector
Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
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Why the liberal project will fail
TheCollector
Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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TheCollector
How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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TheCollector
The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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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...
11 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...
TheCollector
The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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History Today Feed
Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
TheCollector
Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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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...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
TheCollector
Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
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A history of the monastic high life
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
2 weeks ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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TheCollector
The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
2 months ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
9 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
a year ago
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
a week ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
2 months ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
TheCollector
Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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TheCollector
11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
TheCollector
Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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a year ago
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