TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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6 months ago
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
8 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
2 months ago
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
TheCollector
Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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2 months ago
Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
a week ago
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
TheCollector
Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
10 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
10 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
3 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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TheCollector
What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is an Antipope?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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a year ago
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
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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3 months ago
Flashbak
‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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5 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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6 months ago
TheCollector
5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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11 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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a year ago
TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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8 months ago
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
a year ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
a month ago
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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11 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
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
a month ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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a year ago
TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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a year 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
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
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
6 months ago
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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a year ago
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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7 months 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
3 months ago
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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a year ago
History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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a year ago
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
4 months ago
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
12 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
TheCollector
Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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a month 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
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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5 months ago
TheCollector
3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
2 weeks ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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12 months ago
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
6 Assassinations That Changed History
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
5 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
4 months ago
Golden Age of Latin Literature
TheCollector
10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
2 weeks ago
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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TheCollector
What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
TheCollector
HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
TheCollector
The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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a month ago
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
6 days ago
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
TheCollector
A History of the US House of Representatives
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
2 weeks ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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TheCollector
4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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TheCollector
6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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a year ago
TheCollector
Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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7 months ago
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...
a year ago
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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
TheCollector
Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
a month ago
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
TheCollector
Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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TheCollector
5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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TheCollector
How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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TheCollector
Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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TheCollector
Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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4 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
4 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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12 months ago
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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TheCollector
Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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5 months ago
TheCollector
15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
4 months ago
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
2 months ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
6 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Summary of changes for August
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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