TheCollector
The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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TheCollector
Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
7 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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TheCollector
Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
TheCollector
The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
4 days ago
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
TheCollector
What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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TheCollector
The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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TheCollector
A History of the United States Supreme Court
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TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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7 months ago
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
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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TheCollector
Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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TheCollector
Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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TheCollector
Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
3 weeks ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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TheCollector
Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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TheCollector
What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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TheCollector
Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
a month ago
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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TheCollector
Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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3 weeks ago
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
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
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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TheCollector
Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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History Today Feed
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
2 months ago
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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TheCollector
What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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TheCollector
The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
TheCollector
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
11 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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TheCollector
Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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TheCollector
10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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TheCollector
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
2 weeks ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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TheCollector
Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
9 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
TheCollector
What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
7 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
3 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
TheCollector
The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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TheCollector
Who Were the Axis Powers?
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TheCollector
Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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TheCollector
Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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History Today Feed
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
8 months ago
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
3 weeks ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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TheCollector
Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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TheCollector
Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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TheCollector
10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
Seats Still Available
2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
a year ago
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
5 months ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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5 months ago
African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
a year ago
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
History Today Feed
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
2 weeks ago
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
Flashbak
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...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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TheCollector
Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
4 days ago
An Epic Start to the New Year
African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 months ago
TheCollector
7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
TheCollector
What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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TheCollector
Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
5 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
2 months ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
over a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
a month ago
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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9 months ago
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
TheCollector
Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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TheCollector
The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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TheCollector
Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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11 months ago
TheCollector
A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
3 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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TheCollector
Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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TheCollector
5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
7 months ago
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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TheCollector
How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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TheCollector
What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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7 months ago
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
2 weeks ago
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
History Today Feed
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
a month ago
An indispensable organization
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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8 months ago
TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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11 months ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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TheCollector
How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
9 months ago
TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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2 weeks ago
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
TheCollector
Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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TheCollector
A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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12 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
Open Culture
The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
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1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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What Is Solipsism?
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Can Perfumes Be Art? Famous Artists Who Designed Perfume Bottles
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Seneca On Clemency
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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TheCollector
Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
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TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Classical Wisdom
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
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If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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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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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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