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Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
6 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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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...
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“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...
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
6 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm...
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Summary of changes for January
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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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...
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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...
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Summary of changes for June 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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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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...
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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...
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
7 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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...
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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...
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
6 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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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
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
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
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
8 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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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...
8 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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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
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Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Brushing for Britain
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Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
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Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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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...
TheCollector
Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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TheCollector
7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
10 months ago
TheCollector
Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
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TheCollector
Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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TheCollector
Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
5 months ago
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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TheCollector
5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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TheCollector
Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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TheCollector
America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
TheCollector
Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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TheCollector
An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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History Today Feed
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
a month ago
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
TheCollector
Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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TheCollector
Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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TheCollector
How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Open Culture
Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
a week ago
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John Lydon, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, former Woody Guthrie impersonator Bob Dylan.… Luckily for me, this ain’t just fantasy baseball; at various times,...
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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TheCollector
How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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TheCollector
Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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TheCollector
What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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TheCollector
Who Was George Hodel?
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TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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TheCollector
9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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TheCollector
The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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TheCollector
6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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TheCollector
What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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TheCollector
What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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TheCollector
The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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a year 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
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
12 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
TheCollector
8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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TheCollector
3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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TheCollector
8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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TheCollector
Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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TheCollector
10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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TheCollector
Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
TheCollector
Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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TheCollector
Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
5 days ago
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
TheCollector
Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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TheCollector
The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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TheCollector
Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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TheCollector
Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
6 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
10 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
4 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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TheCollector
What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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TheCollector
NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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TheCollector
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
TheCollector
What Is a Film Auteur?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
a year ago
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
3 weeks ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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TheCollector
What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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