Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
TheCollector
9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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TheCollector
7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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TheCollector
10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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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...
4 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
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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TheCollector
The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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TheCollector
Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
TheCollector
5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
11 months ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
a month ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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...
9 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,...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
TheCollector
Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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TheCollector
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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TheCollector
How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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History Today Feed
Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
a month ago
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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Flashbak
Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
a week ago
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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TheCollector
Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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TheCollector
Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
a week ago
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Animals of the Ancient World
6 months ago
Animals of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Flashbak
Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
3 weeks ago
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
TheCollector
What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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TheCollector
Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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TheCollector
Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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TheCollector
Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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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...
Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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TheCollector
Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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TheCollector
10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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TheCollector
Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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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...
History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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TheCollector
6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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TheCollector
Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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TheCollector
Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
a month ago
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
TheCollector
What Is Conceptual Photography?
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TheCollector
What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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TheCollector
Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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TheCollector
What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Continue Reading
TheCollector
Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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TheCollector
Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
Flashbak
Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
2 months ago
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
TheCollector
Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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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...
TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
a year ago
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
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TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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TheCollector
Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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TheCollector
9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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TheCollector
Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
TheCollector
How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
TheCollector
4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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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...
a month ago
“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...
TheCollector
Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
11 months ago
TheCollector
How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
6 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
History Today Feed
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
6 months ago
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
TheCollector
The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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TheCollector
10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
7 months ago
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
TheCollector
The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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TheCollector
Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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TheCollector
Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
TheCollector
Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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TheCollector
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
8 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
TheCollector
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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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.
Continue Reading
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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TheCollector
7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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TheCollector
6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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...
TheCollector
Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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TheCollector
What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
a month ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
TheCollector
Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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TheCollector
6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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TheCollector
Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
6 days ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
TheCollector
Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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TheCollector
London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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TheCollector
When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
TheCollector
“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Understanding What's Happening in France.
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TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
TheCollector
What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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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...
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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...
Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Classical Wisdom
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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No End Of A Lesson.
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2 months ago
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
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Global power has always been distributed.
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
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Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
TheCollector
The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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