Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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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...
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Battle of the Historians
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
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Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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...
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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...
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
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Wars and ideology simplified
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
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Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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Summary of changes for November
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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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...
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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...
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
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How can we train Resilience?
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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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
The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
10 months ago
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
TheCollector
The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
TheCollector
Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
TheCollector
7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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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...
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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TheCollector
The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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TheCollector
Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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
Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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TheCollector
Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
a year ago
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
2 months ago
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
6 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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TheCollector
Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
TheCollector
6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector
10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
a year ago
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
TheCollector
A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
2 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
TheCollector
5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
TheCollector
Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
2 weeks ago
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
TheCollector
Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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TheCollector
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
TheCollector
How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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TheCollector
Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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TheCollector
The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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TheCollector
How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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TheCollector
Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
TheCollector
What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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TheCollector
Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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TheCollector
7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
TheCollector
Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
3 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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