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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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TheCollector
Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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TheCollector
Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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8 months ago
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
Flashbak
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
11 months ago
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
TheCollector
Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
TheCollector
What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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TheCollector
7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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4 months ago
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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a year ago
TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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a week ago
TheCollector
Does Free Will Exist?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
The Antikythera Mechanism
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
6 months ago
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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11 months ago
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...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
4 months ago
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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a year ago
TheCollector
Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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a year ago
TheCollector
Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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a year ago
TheCollector
Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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8 months ago
Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
8 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
TheCollector
Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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2 weeks ago
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
TheCollector
10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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5 months ago
Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
2 weeks ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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12 months ago
TheCollector
4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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9 months ago
TheCollector
New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Is First Thessalonians About?
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
2 months ago
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
6 months ago
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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7 months ago
TheCollector
This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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10 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
a month ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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TheCollector
Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
2 months ago
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
TheCollector
Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
6 months ago
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
TheCollector
7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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a year ago
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.
TheCollector
10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Négritude?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
When Was D-Day?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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2 months ago
TheCollector
12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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4 months ago
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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...
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...
TheCollector
9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Operation Downfall?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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4 weeks ago
History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
5 months ago
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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a year ago
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
TheCollector
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
Flashbak
Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
10 months ago
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
TheCollector
5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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3 weeks ago
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
2 months ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
TheCollector
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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a year ago
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
5 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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a year ago
TheCollector
UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
TheCollector
Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
TheCollector
Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
TheCollector
HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
History Today Feed
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
3 weeks ago
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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a week ago
History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
a year ago
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
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