Patterns in Humanity
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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African History...
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Building Reading Skills (1951)
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Brushing for Britain
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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We left our mooring at...
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Greek or Roman?
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Summary of changes for September
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over a year ago
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Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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over a year ago
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Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Summary of changes for May
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over a year ago
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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
6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
TheCollector
What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
TheCollector
Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
a month ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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4 weeks ago
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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6 months ago
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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a year ago
TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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10 months ago
TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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9 months ago
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
a month ago
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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a year ago
Flashbak
Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
2 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Gnosticism?
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4 months ago
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
5 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
5 days ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
a week ago
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
4 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
TheCollector
Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
TheCollector
How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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a month ago
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
3 days ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
TheCollector
10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
TheCollector
7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
a month ago
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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.
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
TheCollector
What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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a week ago
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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3 days ago
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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11 months ago
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
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...
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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10 months ago
TheCollector
9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
a month ago
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
5 months ago
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
History Today Feed
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
6 months ago
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
6 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...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
TheCollector
The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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5 months ago
TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
3 weeks ago
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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