TheCollector
5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
TheCollector
What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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TheCollector
What Was the Underground Railroad?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Mount Everest
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 8
TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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TheCollector
New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
TheCollector
How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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TheCollector
Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Ethical Philosophy for Fun
Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Journal of African cities: chapter 14
African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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TheCollector
How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
TheCollector
TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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TheCollector
Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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TheCollector
1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
TheCollector
Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
TheCollector
10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
TheCollector
13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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TheCollector
What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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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...
History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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TheCollector
4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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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...
a month ago
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...
TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 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 August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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TheCollector
How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
TheCollector
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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TheCollector
Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Flashbak
Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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TheCollector
A History of the US House of Representatives
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TheCollector
French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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TheCollector
Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Flashbak
The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
6 months ago
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
TheCollector
What Is the Will to Power?
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Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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TheCollector
11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
TheCollector
5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
5 months ago
TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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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.
TheCollector
What Is Transcendentalism?
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TheCollector
10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
10 months ago
TheCollector
Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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TheCollector
Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
3 days ago
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
TheCollector
The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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TheCollector
Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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TheCollector
Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
TheCollector
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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TheCollector
New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
7 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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TheCollector
8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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TheCollector
10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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TheCollector
Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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TheCollector
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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TheCollector
Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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TheCollector
5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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TheCollector
The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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TheCollector
Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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TheCollector
Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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Summary of changes for July
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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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 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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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...
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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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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Why Socrates Matters
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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A Book 100 Years in the Making
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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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.
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Summary of changes for February
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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No End Of A Lesson.
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Trying to Understand...
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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