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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Why are MYTHS Important?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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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...
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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...
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Who Was Tertullian?
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African History...
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
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over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Hundred Rabbits
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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.
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doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Religion in the Olympics
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Immigration and crime: Sweden
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
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“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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The Essential Greeks
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Ancient Atomists
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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TheCollector
Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
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American polarisation: part 2
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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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
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Flashbak
The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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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...
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Beneath the Waves...
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TheCollector
Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
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A History of Phantom Pain
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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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
What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
7 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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TheCollector
French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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TheCollector
Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
7 months ago
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
TheCollector
Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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5 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
4 months ago
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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4 months ago
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,...
TheCollector
Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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TheCollector
Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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TheCollector
Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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a year ago
TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
7 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
a month ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
TheCollector
Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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a year ago
TheCollector
New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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10 months ago
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
TheCollector
5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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5 months ago
Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
2 months ago
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
TheCollector
4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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a year ago
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
TheCollector
Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
8 months ago
TheCollector
Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
2 months ago
TheCollector
Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
2 days ago
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
a year ago
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
a week ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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a year ago
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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5 months ago
TheCollector
End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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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...
8 months ago
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...
Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
5 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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a month ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
a month ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
What Is the History of Halloween?
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
8 months ago
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
3 months ago
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
a week ago
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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a month ago
TheCollector
Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
8 months ago
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
TheCollector
What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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a year ago
TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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3 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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9 months ago
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