TheCollector
Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
TheCollector
Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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TheCollector
Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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a year ago
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
a month ago
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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TheCollector
The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
10 months ago
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
TheCollector
Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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TheCollector
What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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TheCollector
10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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TheCollector
What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
a month ago
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
4 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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3 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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TheCollector
What Is Transcendentalism?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
TheCollector
Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
TheCollector
Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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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
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
a week ago
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
TheCollector
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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TheCollector
Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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TheCollector
Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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TheCollector
An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
a year ago
TheCollector
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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TheCollector
4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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TheCollector
What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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TheCollector
Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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TheCollector
What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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TheCollector
The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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TheCollector
The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
Flashbak
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...
3 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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TheCollector
The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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TheCollector
Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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TheCollector
Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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TheCollector
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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TheCollector
11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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TheCollector
Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
8 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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TheCollector
5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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TheCollector
Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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TheCollector
4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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a year ago
weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
TheCollector
How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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TheCollector
What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
TheCollector
Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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TheCollector
8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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TheCollector
Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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TheCollector
Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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TheCollector
Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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TheCollector
What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
5 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
TheCollector
5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
TheCollector
Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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TheCollector
The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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TheCollector
What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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4 months ago
Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
TheCollector
4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
6 months ago
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
2 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
a month ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
11 months ago
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
8 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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a month ago
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
a month ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
10 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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a year ago
Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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11 months ago
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
3 weeks ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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
The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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The World's First Computer
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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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...
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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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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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The Two Trojan Wars
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
A Collection of...
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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Hundred Rabbits
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
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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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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Immigration and crime: Denmark
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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What makes a good friend?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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