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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Hundred Rabbits
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Flashbak
Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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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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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Magna Graecia
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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TheCollector
Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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7 months 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...
4 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...
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
10 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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a week ago
TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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a year ago
TheCollector
When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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a week ago
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
8 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
6 months ago
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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a year ago
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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...
10 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,...
TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
5 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
a month ago
My interview with "Atlantico"
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
Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is the Eye of Ra?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Was Jesus a Radical?
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a week ago
TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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3 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus
Notes on Christian Syria
a week ago
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
12 months ago
Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
a week ago
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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TheCollector
Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
4 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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a month ago
Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
5 hours ago
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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12 months ago
TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
10 months ago
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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a year ago
TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
3 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
a year ago
TheCollector
Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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a year ago
Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
TheCollector
Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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a month ago
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
TheCollector
Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
10 months ago
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
TheCollector
The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
a month ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
TheCollector
10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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a year ago
TheCollector
Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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a year ago
TheCollector
J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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a year ago
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