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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Patterns in Humanity
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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TheCollector
William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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The Furies
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
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2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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...
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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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...
TheCollector
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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The Ancient Novel
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Flashbak
Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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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...
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
Flashbak
Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
TheCollector
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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TheCollector
What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
10 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
TheCollector
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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2 weeks ago
Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
TheCollector
Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
TheCollector
What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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TheCollector
Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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a year ago
History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
11 months ago
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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...
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
5 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
TheCollector
10 South American Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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a year ago
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Augustus and Ancient Religion
a year ago
Augustus and Ancient Religion
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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a year ago
TheCollector
Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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5 months ago
Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Flashbak
‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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TheCollector
London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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TheCollector
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
a month ago
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
4 months ago
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
TheCollector
10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
a year ago
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
TheCollector
A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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2 months ago
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
What Was Operation Downfall?
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TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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TheCollector
Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
TheCollector
Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
Plus... Merch!
a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
a week ago
TheCollector
Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
TheCollector
What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
3 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
3 months ago
History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
TheCollector
Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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6 months ago
CrimethInc.
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...
2 weeks ago
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...
TheCollector
Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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7 months ago
TheCollector
When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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TheCollector
The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
a month ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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TheCollector
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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TheCollector
10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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4 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
6 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
7 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
TheCollector
The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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4 months ago
Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
7 hours ago
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
Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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a year ago
Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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a year ago
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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a month ago
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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8 months ago
TheCollector
4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
4 days ago
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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3 weeks ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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5 days ago
Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
6 days ago
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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