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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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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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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
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The Secret Life of Latin
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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What is the “Mind”?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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One, Two (1965)
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Leeds Kids the 1970s
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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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...
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Things Don't Always Get Better.
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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How Iran Won the West
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
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Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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Eternal Glory
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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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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Another Of My Essays in French
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And some bits and pieces of news.
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
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demystifying an ancient African society
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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Summary of changes for January
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one 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...
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Hey everyone!
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100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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African History...
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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The Fall of a Republic
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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TheCollector
Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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TheCollector
6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
TheCollector
Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
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TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
TheCollector
Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Classical Wisdom
Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
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Bringing History to the Future
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
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TheCollector
Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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TheCollector
Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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TheCollector
Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
TheCollector
The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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History Today Feed
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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TheCollector
Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
TheCollector
Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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TheCollector
A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
9 months ago
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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TheCollector
Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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TheCollector
How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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TheCollector
London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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TheCollector
Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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TheCollector
The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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TheCollector
The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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TheCollector
5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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TheCollector
Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
TheCollector
The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
a year ago
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
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.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
TheCollector
Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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TheCollector
Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
10 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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TheCollector
Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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TheCollector
Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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TheCollector
How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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TheCollector
How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
TheCollector
Who Were the Axis Powers?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
12 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
8 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
3 weeks ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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TheCollector
Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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TheCollector
Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
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TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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TheCollector
Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
5 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
TheCollector
Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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TheCollector
Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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8 months ago
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...
5 months ago
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...
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
7 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
2 weeks ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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TheCollector
Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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TheCollector
What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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a year 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...
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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TheCollector
Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
TheCollector
7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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9 months ago
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
2 weeks ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
a month ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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TheCollector
What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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TheCollector
Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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10 months ago
TheCollector
History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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5 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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...
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...
8 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...
TheCollector
The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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