TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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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...
a month ago
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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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Trying to Understand...
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But some things are more connected than others.
TheCollector
The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
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American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Classical Wisdom
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African History...
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
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over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Beneath the Waves...
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Fate and Free Will
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
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You don't need to know that.
Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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TheCollector
7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
TheCollector
Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
6 months ago
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Classical Wisdom
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
7 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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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...
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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...
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
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a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
Flashbak
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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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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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...
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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...
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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On cartography as historical argument
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
a week ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
a month ago
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
TheCollector
Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
Classical Wisdom
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
TheCollector
What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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History Today Feed
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
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TheCollector
3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
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TheCollector
Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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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...
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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...
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
TheCollector
What Is Russian Futurism?
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
A history of the monastic high life
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
TheCollector
How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
What Was Jim Crow?
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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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...
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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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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Rituals and Religion
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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African History...
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
TheCollector
1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Crime in the USA
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Summary of changes for October 2023
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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...
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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