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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
TheCollector
How Are Art and Science Related?
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Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
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Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
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But the future worries me.
TheCollector
5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
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If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
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History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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The Evils Of Professionalism
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
3 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
12 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
TheCollector
7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
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Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
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History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
7 months ago
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
12 months ago
Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
TheCollector
Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
TheCollector
A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
a month ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
TheCollector
Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
a year ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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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
The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
2 weeks ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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