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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Essential Classics
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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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...
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
Classical Wisdom
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
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.
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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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...
8 months ago
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...
TheCollector
The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
Classical Wisdom
Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Wrong Side of...
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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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...
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
TheCollector
How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
9 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Global Inequality...
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
TheCollector
The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
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TheCollector
19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
7 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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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...
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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History Today Review of the Year
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j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
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Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
TheCollector
Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
TheCollector
9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
TheCollector
Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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‘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...
TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
TheCollector
What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
TheCollector
End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
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TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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