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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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A Strange Defeat.
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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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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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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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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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
A Collection of...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
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But can they get their heads round it?
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
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It's about having small expectations.
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
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Both in the ancient world... and today?
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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What Was the First Written Language?
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
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Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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What Is the Didache?
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
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8 months ago
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Should We Be Skeptics?
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Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Pilgrims?
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
7 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
TheCollector
What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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a year ago
History Today Feed
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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10 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
a month ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
Flashbak
Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
5 days ago
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
TheCollector
13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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3 months ago
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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a year ago
African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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8 months ago
TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4 months ago
TheCollector
3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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2 weeks ago
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...
a week 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, …...
TheCollector
Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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a year ago
Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
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...
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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9 months ago
Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
TheCollector
5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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5 months ago
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...
a month ago
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...
Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
7 months ago
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Anti-Natalism?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
2 weeks ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
TheCollector
The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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a week ago
TheCollector
5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
TheCollector
10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
6 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
TheCollector
6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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a year ago
TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
TheCollector
What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
4 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
TheCollector
How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
TheCollector
Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
TheCollector
7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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a year ago
Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Blues?
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9 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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a week ago
TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
TheCollector
Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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a month ago
Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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