Trying to Understand...
The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
a year ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Rise of ‘Jamesian’ Ghost Stories: Who Was M.R. James?
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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9 Artists Who Defined Art Nouveau
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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,...
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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...
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
9 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
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6 months ago
A book review from the future.
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
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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...
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
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a year ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
10 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
10 months ago
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JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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Who Was George Eliot?
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History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
11 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
4 months ago
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
TheCollector
Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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Flashbak
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
12 months ago
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
10 months ago
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TheCollector
Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
a year ago
State and society on Africa's largest island.
TheCollector
Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
African History...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
5 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
5 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
12 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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...
7 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...
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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History Today Feed
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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TheCollector
The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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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...
2 months 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...
TheCollector
Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
2 months ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Flashbak
Bertha Czegka: Skiing Bunnies And Other Satire
Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of...
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Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of Visual Artists” in her native Austria. In the interwar period, the painter worked as an illustrator on children’s books. One highlight among her later works is a poster she created in...
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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Wrong Side of...
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American polarisation: part 2
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American polarisation: part 2
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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TheCollector
What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
9 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Blues?
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TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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TheCollector
Mangal Pandey: The Spark That Ignited the Sepoy Mutiny
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
TheCollector
Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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TheCollector
7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
3 weeks ago
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
TheCollector
What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
a year ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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TheCollector
3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a month ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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TheCollector
10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
9 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
TheCollector
How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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TheCollector
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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TheCollector
What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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TheCollector
What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
7 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
TheCollector
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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TheCollector
Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
3 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
a year ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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TheCollector
How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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TheCollector
What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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7 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Beware Shared Basic Value Changes
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
4 days ago
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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a year ago
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
4 months ago
TheCollector
Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
TheCollector
How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How To Beat Brain Rot
Combat the Word of the Year
a week ago
Combat the Word of the Year
TheCollector
4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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11 months ago
TheCollector
HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
11 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
TheCollector
5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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a year ago
Open Culture
The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929)
The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which...
2 weeks ago
The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which “skeletons hoof and frolic,” the peak of whose hilarity “is reached when one skeleton plays the spine of another in xylophone fashion, using a pair of thigh bones as hammers.” The...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
4 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
a year ago
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 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 November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
5 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
4 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
Flashbak
A Walk Around Leeds in The 1970s
We’re shopping in 1970s Leeds as Eric Miles shows us around the city centre. We mooch past Austicks’...
2 weeks ago
We’re shopping in 1970s Leeds as Eric Miles shows us around the city centre. We mooch past Austicks’ Bookshop, where as a teenager writer Alan Bennett worked part-time job. We pop into the County Arcade, walking amid the mahogany shop fronts, pink marble columns, and cast iron...
TheCollector
Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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TheCollector
Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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TheCollector
Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
9 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
TheCollector
Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
Flashbak
Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
7 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
TheCollector
What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
3 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
6 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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TheCollector
7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
a year ago
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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TheCollector
How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Global Inequality...
“To the Finland Station”
Trump as a tool of history
2 weeks ago
Trump as a tool of history
TheCollector
Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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TheCollector
5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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11 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Britain is institutionally 'anti-racist'
The road from Macpherson to Rotherham
5 days ago
The road from Macpherson to Rotherham
TheCollector
Liberation of the Oppressed: What Is Liberation Theology?
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TheCollector
Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
3 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
3 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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TheCollector
Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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TheCollector
How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
12 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
a month ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
a year ago
TheCollector
From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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TheCollector
What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
11 months ago
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
2 months ago
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
TheCollector
Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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TheCollector
The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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5 months ago
Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
a year ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
TheCollector
The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
a year ago
TheCollector
Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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a year ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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TheCollector
George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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a year ago
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
2 months ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
TheCollector
Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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TheCollector
Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Languages Are on the Verge of Disappearing?
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TheCollector
7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
TheCollector
Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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TheCollector
Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
11 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
10 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
3 weeks ago
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
a month ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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TheCollector
Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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a year ago
Open Culture
Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating...
“This is fire season in Los Angeles,” Joan Didion once wrote, relating how every year “the Santa Ana...
6 days ago
“This is fire season in Los Angeles,” Joan Didion once wrote, relating how every year “the Santa Ana winds start blowing down through the passes, and the relative humidity drops to figures like seven or six or three per cent, and the bougainvillea starts rattling in the driveway,...
TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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TheCollector
What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
a year ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
TheCollector
Can Perfumes Be Art? Famous Artists Who Designed Perfume Bottles
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TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
3 months ago
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
TheCollector
The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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TheCollector
Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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a year ago
African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
4 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
11 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
7 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
8 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
3 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
a year ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
11 months ago
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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TheCollector
The Congolese Teen Exhibited in a US Zoo: Who was Ota Benga?
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Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
2 months ago
TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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4 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
a month ago
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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TheCollector
6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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TheCollector
Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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TheCollector
Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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