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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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The Death of Clive of India
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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a brief note on themes in African art.
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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9 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
a month ago
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
4 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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8 months ago
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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10 months ago
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
9 months ago
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
7 months ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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8 months ago
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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7 months ago
Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
a week ago
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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a year ago
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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a month ago
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...
5 months ago
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...
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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6 months ago
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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10 months ago
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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a month ago
TheCollector
7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
12 months ago
From Anya, Joel and Frida
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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6 months ago
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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7 months ago
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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9 months ago
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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a year ago
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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11 months ago
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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a year ago
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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a year ago
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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4 months ago
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
a month ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
TheCollector
Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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a year ago
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
8 months ago
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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10 months ago
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a week ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
TheCollector
7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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10 months ago
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
What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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10 months ago
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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6 months 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...
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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a month ago
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
TheCollector
Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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a year ago
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
a month ago
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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5 months ago
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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12 months ago
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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10 months ago
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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10 months ago
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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a year ago
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a week ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
TheCollector
Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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11 months ago
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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8 months ago
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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a month ago
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
3 weeks ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
10 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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6 months ago
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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a year ago
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
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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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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7 months ago
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
4 months ago
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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