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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
3 weeks ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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4 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
6 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
TheCollector
Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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a year ago
TheCollector
Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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a week ago
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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a year ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
TheCollector
Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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12 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
6 days ago
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
TheCollector
8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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a week ago
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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3 weeks ago
Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
TheCollector
J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
7 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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11 months ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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a year ago
TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
TheCollector
4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
TheCollector
5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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a month ago
TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What is the Eye of Ra?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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2 months ago
TheCollector
When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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a week ago
TheCollector
The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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3 days ago
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
2 months ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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8 months ago
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
2 weeks ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
TheCollector
How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
TheCollector
Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
3 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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2 weeks ago
Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
4 days ago
Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
TheCollector
James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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a year ago
TheCollector
Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
TheCollector
6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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2 days ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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10 months ago
Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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...
3 weeks ago
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
6 months ago
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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3 months ago
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.
TheCollector
Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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3 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
TheCollector
What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
TheCollector
How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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10 months ago
TheCollector
New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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4 months ago
TheCollector
6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
8 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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11 months ago
TheCollector
7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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7 months ago
TheCollector
“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
10 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
5 Female Heroes of World War II
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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a year ago
TheCollector
What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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a year ago
TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
TheCollector
Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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a year ago
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
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...
3 weeks 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...
TheCollector
What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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TheCollector
What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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8 months ago
TheCollector
FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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TheCollector
The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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TheCollector
Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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TheCollector
Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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11 months ago
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
2 months ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
7 months ago
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
TheCollector
How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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7 months ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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The KGB After Stalin
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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A Collection of...
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Dreams of Space -...
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Dreams of Space -...
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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