History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
10 months ago
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
4 months ago
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
TheCollector
Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
11 months ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
Classical Wisdom
Less than ONE Week Left
In Search of Homer Trip Opening
2 months ago
In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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...
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
TheCollector
Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
9 months ago
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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What Is the Ides of March?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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TheCollector
What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
4 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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TheCollector
Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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TheCollector
10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
8 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
TheCollector
Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
5 days ago
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
TheCollector
The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
2 weeks ago
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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TheCollector
Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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TheCollector
The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
TheCollector
5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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TheCollector
Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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TheCollector
Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
TheCollector
10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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TheCollector
Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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TheCollector
Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
10 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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TheCollector
5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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TheCollector
Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
TheCollector
Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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TheCollector
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
2 weeks ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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TheCollector
Who Is Kiki Smith?
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TheCollector
What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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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
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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TheCollector
Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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TheCollector
10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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4 months 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
History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
Flashbak
Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
7 months ago
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
TheCollector
5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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TheCollector
A (Brief) History of the IRA
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TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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TheCollector
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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TheCollector
What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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TheCollector
Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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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...
8 months ago
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...
Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
a month ago
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
TheCollector
British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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TheCollector
Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
5 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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TheCollector
When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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TheCollector
St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
a month ago
Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
a week ago
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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TheCollector
A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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TheCollector
Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
TheCollector
5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
2 months ago
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Rocket Divers (1962)
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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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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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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