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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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a year ago
TheCollector
Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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a week ago
Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
TheCollector
Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
6 days ago
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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4 days ago
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
11 months ago
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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6 months ago
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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12 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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a month ago
TheCollector
An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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6 months ago
TheCollector
When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
6 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
2 weeks ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
6 days ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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a year ago
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
2 months ago
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
TheCollector
What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
8 months ago
TheCollector
How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
10 months ago
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
TheCollector
What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
4 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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a year ago
TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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a year ago
Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
a month ago
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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11 months ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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a year ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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6 months ago
African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
9 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
a year ago
What's it going to be, then?
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Capoeira?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
4 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
TheCollector
Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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9 months ago
Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
a week ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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a month ago
TheCollector
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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8 hours ago
TheCollector
The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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2 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Négritude?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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9 months ago
TheCollector
7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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a year ago
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