TheCollector
Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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TheCollector
Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Flashbak
Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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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
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
8 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
TheCollector
Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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TheCollector
What Is Transcendentalism?
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Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
10 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
History Today Feed
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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Flashbak
Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
3 days ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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Plato Vs Aristotle
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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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.
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
TheCollector
Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
4 months ago
Golden Age of Latin Literature
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
Flashbak
At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
TheCollector
The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
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TheCollector
Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
2 months ago
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
2 weeks ago
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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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...
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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...
History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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TheCollector
Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Flashbak
A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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TheCollector
From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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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
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
3 weeks ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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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..
TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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TheCollector
Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
7 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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TheCollector
Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
6 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
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This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
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This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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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...
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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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...
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“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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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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