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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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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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World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Patterns in Humanity
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Res Obscura
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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When Was D-Day?
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Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
TheCollector
How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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TheCollector
What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Flashbak
‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
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TheCollector
Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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TheCollector
Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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TheCollector
How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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TheCollector
6 Assassinations That Changed History
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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TheCollector
Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
10 months ago
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
3 weeks ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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TheCollector
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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TheCollector
5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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TheCollector
4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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TheCollector
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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TheCollector
Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
10 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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TheCollector
Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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TheCollector
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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a year ago
History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
TheCollector
Why Are There Two Virginias?
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TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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TheCollector
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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4 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
TheCollector
7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
3 weeks ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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TheCollector
Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
TheCollector
How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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TheCollector
La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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TheCollector
8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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TheCollector
John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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TheCollector
Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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TheCollector
Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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TheCollector
13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
What Is First Thessalonians About?
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TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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TheCollector
King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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TheCollector
Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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TheCollector
5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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TheCollector
5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
TheCollector
Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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TheCollector
Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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TheCollector
German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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TheCollector
6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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TheCollector
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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TheCollector
The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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TheCollector
What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
TheCollector
TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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TheCollector
Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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TheCollector
What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
TheCollector
Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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TheCollector
Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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TheCollector
Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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TheCollector
Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
2 days ago
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Voguing?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern?
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TheCollector
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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9 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
3 days ago
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
TheCollector
What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Berlin Conference?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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5 months ago
African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
a year ago
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
a year ago
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
3 weeks ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
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