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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Will The West Eat Itself?
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the sucessor of Songhai
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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A Collection of...
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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How to Give a Speech
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Dr Alun Withey
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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A Collection of...
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This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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a year ago
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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A Celebration of Virtue
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TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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JamesHoare
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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JamesHoare
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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JamesHoare
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
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‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
7 months ago
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
TheCollector
What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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TheCollector
7 African Myths About Animals
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5 months ago
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...
a month 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...
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
TheCollector
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
TheCollector
The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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TheCollector
Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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TheCollector
Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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a year ago
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
History Today Feed
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
TheCollector
The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
10 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
A Brief History of Chile
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2 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.
Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
a year ago
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
TheCollector
Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
a year ago
...and the Origins of the Universe
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
TheCollector
When Did the Korean War Start?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
10 months ago
TheCollector
Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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TheCollector
Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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TheCollector
Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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TheCollector
When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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TheCollector
From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
7 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
6 months ago
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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7 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
6 days ago
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
TheCollector
The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
TheCollector
10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
TheCollector
From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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a year ago
TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
10 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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TheCollector
Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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8 months ago
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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5 months ago
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.
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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TheCollector
What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
TheCollector
The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
4 days ago
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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TheCollector
5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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10 months ago
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
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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a year ago
TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
a week ago
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
a week ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
TheCollector
Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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TheCollector
7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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4 months 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.
TheCollector
When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
TheCollector
Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
TheCollector
What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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a month ago
TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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a year ago
TheCollector
A History of the United States Supreme Court
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a year ago
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
2 days ago
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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a year 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
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