Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
a week ago
TheCollector
11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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9 months ago
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.
TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
8 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
TheCollector
Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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
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
What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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TheCollector
Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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TheCollector
Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
TheCollector
How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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10 months ago
Flashbak
New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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TheCollector
From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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7 months ago
TheCollector
4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
6 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
TheCollector
Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
3 days ago
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
TheCollector
How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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TheCollector
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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TheCollector
10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
8 months ago
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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TheCollector
Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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TheCollector
Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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TheCollector
What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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TheCollector
4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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TheCollector
US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
7 months ago
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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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...
9 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...
TheCollector
Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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TheCollector
How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
TheCollector
How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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TheCollector
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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TheCollector
Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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6 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
Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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TheCollector
What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
TheCollector
History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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TheCollector
How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
a year ago
What's it going to be, then?
TheCollector
11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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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...
a month 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
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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History Today Feed
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
3 months ago
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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TheCollector
The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
a week ago
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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TheCollector
Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
TheCollector
The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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TheCollector
5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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TheCollector
Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Flashbak
The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
a week ago
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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TheCollector
13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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TheCollector
10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
TheCollector
8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
a week ago
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
TheCollector
Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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TheCollector
How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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TheCollector
Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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TheCollector
Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
TheCollector
Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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TheCollector
Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
a week ago
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
TheCollector
What Was the Berlin Conference?
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TheCollector
Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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TheCollector
Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
TheCollector
The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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TheCollector
How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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TheCollector
8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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TheCollector
Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
a week ago
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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TheCollector
What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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TheCollector
Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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TheCollector
Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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TheCollector
How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
2 weeks ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is a Film Auteur?
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TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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TheCollector
The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Overcoming Bias
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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War Stoppers and God Makers
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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The Assassination of Malcolm X
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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