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Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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a year ago
TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
TheCollector
Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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4 days ago
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
The Antikythera Mechanism
TheCollector
Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
4 months ago
Golden Age of Latin Literature
TheCollector
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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a year ago
TheCollector
Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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a week ago
TheCollector
What Is Gnosticism?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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a year ago
TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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a year ago
TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Less than ONE Week Left
In Search of Homer Trip Opening
2 months ago
In Search of Homer Trip Opening
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
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.
TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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10 months ago
TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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a year ago
TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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a month ago
Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
a year ago
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
11 months ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
2 weeks ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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6 months ago
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.
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
TheCollector
10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is Kiki Smith?
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
7 months ago
Flashbak
Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
7 months ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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a year ago
TheCollector
New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
a month ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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a month ago
TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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a year ago
Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
a week ago
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
a week ago
History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
7 months ago
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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11 months ago
TheCollector
10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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a year ago
TheCollector
Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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