TheCollector
Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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TheCollector
Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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TheCollector
A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
TheCollector
10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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TheCollector
Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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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.
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
TheCollector
What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
2 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
What Is a Film Auteur?
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TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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TheCollector
Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
TheCollector
How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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TheCollector
What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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...
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
6 Assassinations That Changed History
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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
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
Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
TheCollector
10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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TheCollector
Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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TheCollector
How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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TheCollector
What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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TheCollector
Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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TheCollector
10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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TheCollector
10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
11 months ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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TheCollector
Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
TheCollector
Who Were the Pilgrims?
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TheCollector
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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TheCollector
The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
History Today Feed
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
10 months ago
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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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
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
History Today Feed
Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
a month ago
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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TheCollector
Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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TheCollector
James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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11 months ago
African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
a month ago
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
TheCollector
Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
10 months ago
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
TheCollector
Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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TheCollector
Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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TheCollector
Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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TheCollector
Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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TheCollector
Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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TheCollector
Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
12 months ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
TheCollector
What Is Solipsism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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Classical Wisdom
Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
a month ago
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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8 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
2 months ago
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
TheCollector
What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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TheCollector
Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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TheCollector
Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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TheCollector
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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a month ago
African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
2 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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TheCollector
The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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TheCollector
6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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TheCollector
What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
7 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Eternal Glory
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
TheCollector
Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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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...
Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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What Is the Didache?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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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...
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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?
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Flashbak
François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
TheCollector
6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a week ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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Who Was Tertullian?
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
3 months ago
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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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
What Are the Romance Languages?
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
7 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
TheCollector
The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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