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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
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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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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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TheCollector
Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
TheCollector
What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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What Is the Will to Power?
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Flashbak
See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
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Global Inequality...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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9 months ago
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How to Revive Wassailing
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TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Flashbak
New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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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...
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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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.
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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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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Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
TheCollector
The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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History Today Feed
‘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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Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
5 months ago
TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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7 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
Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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TheCollector
5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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TheCollector
How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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11 months ago
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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TheCollector
10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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TheCollector
What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
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American polarisation: part 2
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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TheCollector
8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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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...
TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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TheCollector
Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
2 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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TheCollector
Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
a month ago
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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TheCollector
5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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TheCollector
What Is an Antipope?
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2 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
a year ago
Power laws in criminal behavior
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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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!
Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
11 months ago
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Trying to Understand...
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
a month ago
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
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Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
2 months ago
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
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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....
a month ago
“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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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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7 months ago
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
2 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
a year ago
Belief in the Ancient World
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
3 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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What Is the Didache?
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Beyond Stoicism
New Event: January 7th, 2025
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New Event: January 7th, 2025
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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