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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
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A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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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...
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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...
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
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For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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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...
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
5 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Beware Policy Abstraction
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5...
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
11 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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What Are Conlangs?
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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How Iran Won the West
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
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Some people never grow up.
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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a year ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
TheCollector
Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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How Did Socrates Die?
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
TheCollector
5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
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8 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
TheCollector
The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
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Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
Open Culture
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
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Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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“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
Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
TheCollector
7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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...
Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
What Was the Chaco War?
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
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It's about having small expectations.
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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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
10 Forgotten US Presidents
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of...
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Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of his adopted city of Philadelphia and the aeronautical industry, and photographs of lightning. Setting out to prove “lightning bolts were not of the zig-zag form pictured by artists”,...
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
TheCollector
The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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