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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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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
Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
TheCollector
5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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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.
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Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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And Now for Something Completely Different.
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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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...
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
a year ago
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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History Today Feed
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Brushing for Britain
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Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
TheCollector
How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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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...
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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