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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status “All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review ‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review JamesHoare Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
10 months ago
TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada undefined
a year ago
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades? undefined
11 months ago
Flashbak
Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
TheCollector
Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best undefined
8 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh? undefined
7 months ago
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich undefined
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?” undefined
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self undefined
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe undefined
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How to Read Film Like a Language undefined
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End undefined
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio! Thousand Rooms, translated the...
TheCollector
10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods undefined
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas? undefined
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry? undefined
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy? undefined
4 months ago
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible? undefined
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff? The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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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...
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954 On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour Seats Still Available
3 days ago
TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met undefined
a year ago
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii? undefined
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody undefined
2 months ago
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas undefined
a year ago
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial JamesHoare Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review ‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review JamesHoare Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review ‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review JamesHoare Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look? undefined
11 months ago
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
TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Julius Caesar
9 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
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Death of a Turkey Legend Death of a Turkey Legend JamesHoare Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls? undefined
5 months ago
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created? undefined
8 months ago
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You undefined
a year ago
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87 undefined
7 months ago
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Who Invented the Refrigerator? undefined
9 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
TheCollector
10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels undefined
a year ago
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend undefined
7 months ago
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux? undefined
7 months ago
History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why? When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why? JamesHoare Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
TheCollector
The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora undefined
2 months ago
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings? undefined
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia? undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion. And the exhaustion of politics.
5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ undefined
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go? Important Notice
4 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles? undefined
3 months ago
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead Arguing with the Dead JamesHoare Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
TheCollector
Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany undefined
4 days ago
TheCollector
What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration? undefined
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TheCollector
Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed? undefined
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like? undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts? undefined
4 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan undefined
a year ago
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
TheCollector
Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It? undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator undefined
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection undefined
a year ago
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What Was the Great Migration in the US? undefined
a year ago
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art undefined
9 months ago
Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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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
8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau undefined
a year ago
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much? undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review ‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review JamesHoare Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
2 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...
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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...
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear? This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist undefined
5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review ‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review JamesHoare Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
5 months ago
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview undefined
a year ago
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas undefined
2 months ago
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics undefined
8 months ago
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought? undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo? undefined
6 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb? A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
7 months ago
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block undefined
a year ago
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World? undefined
4 months ago
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
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This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend Death of a Samurai Legend JamesHoare Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
6 months ago
TheCollector
Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief undefined
2 weeks ago
Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets undefined
3 months ago
Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World? undefined
a year ago
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works? undefined
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin? undefined
5 months ago
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series undefined
8 months ago
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler “Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“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...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023 Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
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Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
Flashbak
Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots “The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt  ...
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“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt   Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
TheCollector
A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World? undefined
a month ago
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy undefined
2 months ago
History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire JamesHoare Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
a month ago
TheCollector
When Was D-Day? undefined
a year ago
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade undefined
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India undefined
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible? undefined
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 ) “ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’ A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’ A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture? undefined
3 months ago
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano undefined
3 months ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Prometheus and AI?
a month ago
TheCollector
What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It) undefined
3 months ago
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read undefined
10 months ago
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer undefined
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste? undefined
10 months ago
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914 undefined
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History? Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge? undefined
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Beyond Stoicism New Event: January 7th, 2025
6 days ago
Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well? Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
a year ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement undefined
a year ago
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races undefined
2 months ago
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054? undefined
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TheCollector
Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies? “Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
11 months ago
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together? undefined
7 months ago
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England undefined
8 months ago
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire undefined
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions undefined
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace? undefined
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained undefined
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Flashbak
Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice “Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart   Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981 1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and  In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
TheCollector
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not” undefined
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Flashbak
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...
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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
4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of undefined
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TheCollector
Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art undefined
2 months ago
Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia My interview with "Atlantico"
2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Upcoming Events So you're in the know...
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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11 months ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
TheCollector
8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja undefined
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TheCollector
12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay? Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists? undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review ‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review j.hoare Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
11 months ago
TheCollector
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights undefined
11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe. Noodle,...
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work? undefined
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place? undefined
5 months ago
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento? undefined
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
TheCollector
Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy undefined
12 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Continue Reading
TheCollector
Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi? undefined
9 months ago
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch” undefined
4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal. Left, added a...
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980 Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
TheCollector
Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands undefined
10 months ago
Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
2 weeks ago
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Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II? undefined
10 months ago
Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997 New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects undefined
10 months ago
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest undefined
a year ago
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg? undefined
11 months ago
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin JamesHoare Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Athanasius? undefined
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Who Is Ai Weiwei? undefined
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson undefined
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History undefined
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire? undefined
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter  ...
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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...
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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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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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