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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Patterns in Humanity
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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over a year ago
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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A book review from the future.
Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
2 months ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
TheCollector
10 South American Artists You Should Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
a month ago
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
7 months ago
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
TheCollector
Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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TheCollector
The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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TheCollector
America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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TheCollector
8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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4 months ago
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...
a week ago
[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...
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
TheCollector
Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
a month ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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TheCollector
The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
2 weeks ago
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
TheCollector
What Is an Antipope?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
3 weeks ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
TheCollector
Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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TheCollector
A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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6 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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TheCollector
Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
a week ago
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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TheCollector
Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
8 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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
TheCollector
Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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a year ago
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
TheCollector
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
2 weeks ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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TheCollector
Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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a year ago
TheCollector
Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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TheCollector
8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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TheCollector
Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
TheCollector
Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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8 months ago
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...
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...
TheCollector
Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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TheCollector
Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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TheCollector
The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
TheCollector
The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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TheCollector
What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Flashbak
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...
3 months ago
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...
Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
6 days ago
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
TheCollector
The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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TheCollector
The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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TheCollector
The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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a year ago
Flashbak
Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
10 months ago
“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...
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Flashbak
A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
Flashbak
Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5...
3 months ago
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
11 months ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
History Today Feed
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
2 weeks ago
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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TheCollector
The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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11 months ago
TheCollector
A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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12 months ago
History Today Feed
Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
3 weeks ago
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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a year ago
TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
a week ago
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
TheCollector
The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago