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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
TheCollector
Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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TheCollector
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
5 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
TheCollector
What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
4 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
Classical Wisdom
Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
Take a Santa Pause
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II?
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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...
TheCollector
What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
TheCollector
Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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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.
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
TheCollector
How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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TheCollector
Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
TheCollector
When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
3 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
6 months ago
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
2 weeks ago
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
TheCollector
Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem?
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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...
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
5 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
TheCollector
Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
4 months ago
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Who Was George Hodel?
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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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...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
TheCollector
How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
5 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
TheCollector
5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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TheCollector
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera Mechanism
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
TheCollector
What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
TheCollector
Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
TheCollector
Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
a month ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
7 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
a year ago
TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Romance Languages?
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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6 months ago
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...
3 weeks ago
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...
TheCollector
Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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a year ago
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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2 months ago
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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8 months ago
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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7 months ago
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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6 months ago
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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6 months ago
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
a month ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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9 months ago
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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5 months ago
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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6 months ago
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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a year ago
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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5 months ago
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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8 months ago
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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7 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
11 months ago
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
2 weeks ago
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
TheCollector
Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
3 weeks ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
What Was the Berlin Conference?
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3 months ago
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4 months ago
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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10 months ago
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
8 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
TheCollector
Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
a year ago
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
TheCollector
Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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8 months ago
TheCollector
12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
Flashbak
Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
3 months ago
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
TheCollector
Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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10 months ago
TheCollector
French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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7 months ago
TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
TheCollector
How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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2 days ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
TheCollector
Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
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...
a year ago
“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...
Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
3 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
a month ago
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
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...
5 months ago
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...
TheCollector
6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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3 months ago
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