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TheCollector
Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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What Was Jim Crow?
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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TheCollector
Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Classical Wisdom
Hades
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
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Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
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‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
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Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
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Petra and Passports
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
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For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
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It's All About Them.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
TheCollector
Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
TheCollector
5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Buildings in the US
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TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a month ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Res Obscura
2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
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TheCollector
Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
9 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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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...
5 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Utah
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Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
a month ago
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
TheCollector
What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
NEW Event
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Classical Wisdom
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
TheCollector
Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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TheCollector
Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
TheCollector
Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Flashbak
Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
a month ago
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
a month ago
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
3 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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TheCollector
6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
11 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
5 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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What Is Affection in Philosophy?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
9 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
9 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
TheCollector
Haile Selassie: Divinity or Despot?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
4 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
TheCollector
Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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***Now Enrolling: Starting January 15th, 2025
African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
8 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
African History...
The forts and castles of Africa: a brief architectural history.
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly...
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For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly urban phenomenon associated with large states.
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How Did the Victorian Dead Body Trade Operate?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
2 months ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
What Are the Ethical Values of Gen Z?
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Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
3 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
Flashbak
12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
2 months ago
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
8 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
9 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
TheCollector
Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
2 months ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
3 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
8 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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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...
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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...
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
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How Did the Black Death Change the English Language?
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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When Was D-Day?
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Bringing It All Back Home
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a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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What Is Theodicy?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
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Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Happy Holidays!
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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The Life & Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
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