TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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The Story of Thebes
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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The Death of Clive of India
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TheCollector
How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
“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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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
4 days ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
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But is there anything there?
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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TheCollector
Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Wrong Side of...
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TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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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
How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
TheCollector
4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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TheCollector
Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
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TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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TheCollector
Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
8 months ago
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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History Today Feed
Putting Mothers on Death Row
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JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
6 months ago
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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TheCollector
The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
TheCollector
Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
TheCollector
Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
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TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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TheCollector
6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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TheCollector
Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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What Is Solipsism?
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
a year ago
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
5 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
3 days ago
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Hades
The God of the Dead
a year ago
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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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...
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
6 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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11 months ago
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
a week ago
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
a year ago
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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12 months ago
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
a month ago
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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12 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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11 months ago
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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