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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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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....
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“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...
TheCollector
Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
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A history of the monastic high life
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The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
TheCollector
5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Flashbak
British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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
Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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When Was D-Day?
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
TheCollector
The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
2 days ago
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
Flashbak
A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
a month ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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What Is an Antipope?
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Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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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...
TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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What Is the Didache?
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Weekend Roundup
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Beneath the Waves...
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
History Today Feed
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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The Essential Greeks
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