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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Why I love etymologies
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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And Her Controversial Religion
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
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a year ago
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African History...
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Early Christianity
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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The "New" Ancient City
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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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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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
TheCollector
What Is the History of Halloween?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
TheCollector
5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
8 months ago
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
2 months ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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a month ago
TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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a month ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
2 months ago
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
TheCollector
Who Were the Maccabees?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
2 weeks ago
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
TheCollector
Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
7 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
TheCollector
It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
TheCollector
Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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2 months ago
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
9 months ago
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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10 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
TheCollector
Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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6 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
3 weeks ago
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
11 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
TheCollector
Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
4 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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a year ago
Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
5 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
8 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
a year ago
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
5 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
a month ago
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
7 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
TheCollector
How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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a year ago
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
a month ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
TheCollector
Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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a year ago
TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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3 months ago
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
Flashbak
Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
2 weeks ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Returns!
a year ago
The Essential Greeks Returns!
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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a year ago
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
2 weeks ago
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
TheCollector
The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
7 months ago
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
a year ago
...and the feared Persian Army
TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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8 months ago
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