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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
Global Inequality...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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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...
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Res Obscura
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Patterns in Humanity
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Seneca On Clemency
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
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Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
4 months ago
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
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... and the Fall of the Republic
History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
5 Famous Black Mexicans
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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What Is Gnosticism?
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:13
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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‘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...
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
7 months ago
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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a week ago
TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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5 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
a month ago
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
TheCollector
7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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9 months ago
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
4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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yesterday
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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5 months ago
TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
TheCollector
Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
2 days ago
TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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9 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
a week ago
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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a year ago
weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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11 months ago
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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...
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
a month ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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a year ago
African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
8 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
TheCollector
10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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a month ago
TheCollector
NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
TheCollector
Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
8 months ago
TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
9 months ago
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
Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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a year ago
weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
a year ago
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
Flashbak
1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
TheCollector
Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
2 weeks ago
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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a month ago
TheCollector
4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
4 months ago
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Forgotten US Presidents
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
a month ago
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
TheCollector
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
TheCollector
Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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3 months ago
TheCollector
History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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a year ago
TheCollector
Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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2 months ago
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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a week ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
Flashbak
Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
2 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
TheCollector
What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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6 months ago
Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
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;...
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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TheCollector
Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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8 months ago
Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
TheCollector
The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023
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,...
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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a week ago
TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
a year ago
Bringing History to the Future
TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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