Overcoming Bias
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Dr Alun Withey
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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the promise of pancakes
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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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...
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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History Today Feed
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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And the Palace where it was found...
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Rituals and Religion
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Wrong Side of...
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Understanding political violence.
Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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What’s the History of Gin?
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
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4 months ago
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) 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...
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Patterns in Humanity
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Classical Wisdom
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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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
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
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Bringing History to the Future
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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a complete history of an African monument
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a complete history of an African monument
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.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
11 months ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
Classical Wisdom
Upcoming Events
So you're in the know...
a year ago
TheCollector
What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
TheCollector
Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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TheCollector
Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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TheCollector
Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
a year ago
TheCollector
Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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TheCollector
Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
TheCollector
Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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TheCollector
6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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TheCollector
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
9 months ago
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
TheCollector
Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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TheCollector
UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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TheCollector
What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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TheCollector
10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
What Is Gnosticism?
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TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
TheCollector
What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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TheCollector
5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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a year ago
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
TheCollector
The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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a year ago
TheCollector
Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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TheCollector
From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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?
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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TheCollector
The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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TheCollector
Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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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
Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
TheCollector
Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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9 months ago
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
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
TheCollector
Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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TheCollector
The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
TheCollector
Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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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...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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TheCollector
Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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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,...
Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
a year ago
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
TheCollector
Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
TheCollector
What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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9 months ago
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...
5 days 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
How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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TheCollector
How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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TheCollector
Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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