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‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
a year ago
Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
TheCollector
Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Halloween?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
8 months ago
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
a month ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
7 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
3 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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11 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
6 days ago
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
a month ago
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
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An indispensable organization
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Factoids From the Ancient World
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Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
TheCollector
Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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3 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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The Two Trojan Wars
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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The Silence of the Elephants
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Battle of the Historians
a year ago
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
a year ago
History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
9 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
2 months ago
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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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...
2 days ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
7 months ago
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
TheCollector
How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
a month ago
Europe turns away from America.
TheCollector
The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
5 months ago
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
2 weeks ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
TheCollector
Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
a month ago
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
TheCollector
Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
Flashbak
Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
3 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
What Is Solipsism?
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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TheCollector
Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
TheCollector
Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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9 months ago
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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TheCollector
Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
a week ago
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
TheCollector
What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
a month ago
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
TheCollector
8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Flashbak
Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
10 months ago
“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...
TheCollector
The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
8 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
4 months ago
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
TheCollector
Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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3 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
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An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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What Government Governs Best?
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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