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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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TheCollector
Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Classical Wisdom
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TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Res Obscura
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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7 months ago
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
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Stock vs flow approach.
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Patterns in Humanity
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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8 months ago
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Classical Wisdom
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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6 months ago
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Dr Alun Withey
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
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TheCollector
6 Must-See English Castles
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
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Early Christianity
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
11 months ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Classical Wisdom
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Aristotle on Friendship
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TheCollector
What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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weird medieval guys
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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TheCollector
How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Global Inequality...
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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The True Knights Templar
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j.hoare
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TheCollector
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel
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JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
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JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
5 days ago
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
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The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
TheCollector
Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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TheCollector
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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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.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
History Today Feed
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
6 months ago
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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TheCollector
Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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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.
TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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TheCollector
Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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TheCollector
Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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TheCollector
Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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TheCollector
5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
3 months ago
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JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
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JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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TheCollector
How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
a week ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
a year ago
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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...
a month 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
10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
a month ago
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History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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“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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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
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Here is a straight history book of an current...
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Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
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6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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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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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
TheCollector
Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
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a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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What Is Populism?
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Sex Before Sex Education
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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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,...
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Wrong Side of...
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Flashbak
1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of 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,...
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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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...
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
TheCollector
Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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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
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
a year ago
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
History Today Feed
Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
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