TheCollector
Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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African History...
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an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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The Life of Terence
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
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Classical Wisdom
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Secret of the Stoics
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Wrong Side of...
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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TheCollector
What Is Gnosticism?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
TheCollector
Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
TheCollector
“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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TheCollector
What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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
The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
TheCollector
Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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TheCollector
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
2 hours ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
Classical Wisdom
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Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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What Is an Antipope?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
4 months ago
Golden Age of Latin Literature
Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
3 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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TheCollector
5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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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
When Did the Korean War Start?
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TheCollector
Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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TheCollector
Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
TheCollector
Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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TheCollector
Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
a year ago
...and the Origins of the Universe
TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 months ago
African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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TheCollector
‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
a month ago
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
a year ago
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
TheCollector
4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix?
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TheCollector
Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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TheCollector
How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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11 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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TheCollector
Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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TheCollector
How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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TheCollector
10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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TheCollector
7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
8 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Flashbak
Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
6 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
a week ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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TheCollector
Who Were the Samaritans?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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TheCollector
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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TheCollector
Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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TheCollector
8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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TheCollector
Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
4 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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TheCollector
Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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TheCollector
A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
5 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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TheCollector
How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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TheCollector
Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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TheCollector
What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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TheCollector
Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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TheCollector
How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
a month ago
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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What Are Conlangs?
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Weekend Roundup
Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Flashbak
See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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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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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Monsters of Mythology
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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.
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
8 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Ethical Philosophy for Fun
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
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Blindspots and Biographies
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
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We might not be in this mess.
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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When Was D-Day?
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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