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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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History Today Feed
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
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Summary Of Changes
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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History Today Feed
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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CrimethInc.
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In politics, well, it depends.
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone!
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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JamesHoare
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TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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History Today Feed
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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JamesHoare
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TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
TheCollector
The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
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a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
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Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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A History of the United States Senate
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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African History...
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
History Today Feed
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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What Is Nestorianism?
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
Open Culture
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Ancient Greek Art
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Nature in Greek Myth
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
TheCollector
Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
TheCollector
Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
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Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
a week ago
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
5 months ago
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
TheCollector
Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
9 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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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...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
2 weeks ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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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....
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“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 ...
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
TheCollector
What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
12 months ago
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
11 months ago
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
TheCollector
Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
2 months ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Early Christianity
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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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....
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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
5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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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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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
5 days ago
Another of my essays in French.
Flashbak
The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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