TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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an island in the maelstrom
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Papa To The Rescue.
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Flashbak
Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
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9 months ago
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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7 African Myths About Animals
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History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
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Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
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Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
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History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
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a year ago
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Secret of the Stoics
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TheCollector
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
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Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
3 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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
The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Flashbak
London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm...
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
TheCollector
10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
a month ago
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
TheCollector
Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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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...
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Philosopher Kings
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
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Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
3 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
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One I bought fifty years ago.
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
6 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
Classical Wisdom
Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
11 months ago
Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
a year ago
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
a month ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
3 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
5 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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7 months ago
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
11 months ago
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
7 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
6 months ago
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
a week ago
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Flashbak
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...
2 months ago
“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...
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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 week 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...
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
a month ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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