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Service to what nation?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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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...
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Gaius Marius
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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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!
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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.
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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Man-Made Moons (1960)
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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What Was the First Written Language?
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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How French Was Medieval England?
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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6 months ago
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
a month ago
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
a month ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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TheCollector
Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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11 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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3 months ago
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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a year ago
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
a year ago
TheCollector
Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
3 months ago
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
TheCollector
What Was Jim Crow?
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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2 months ago
African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
6 hours ago
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
TheCollector
Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Maccabees?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
11 months ago
TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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8 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
a year ago
Power laws in criminal behavior
TheCollector
The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
7 months ago
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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11 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
a week ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
4 days ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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8 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
11 months ago
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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10 months ago
TheCollector
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Voguing?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
3 weeks ago
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
TheCollector
Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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3 months ago
TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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4 months ago
TheCollector
3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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6 months ago
TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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3 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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TheCollector
The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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a year ago
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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TheCollector
Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
4 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
TheCollector
10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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TheCollector
French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
9 months ago
TheCollector
King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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a month ago
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Clement of Rome?
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
TheCollector
The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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a month ago
Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
TheCollector
Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
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
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
TheCollector
Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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4 months ago
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