TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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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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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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...
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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The Philippine-American War: The US’s First “Vietnam”
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
TheCollector
Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
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Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
TheCollector
Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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TheCollector
The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Shire must be brought to heel
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
TheCollector
The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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TheCollector
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
TheCollector
7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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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
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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10 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
7 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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6 months ago
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
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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2 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
4 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Last Chance!
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TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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a year ago
Flashbak
Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
TheCollector
5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Flashbak
Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
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Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
2 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
TheCollector
5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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TheCollector
When Did the Korean War Start?
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Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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12 months ago
African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
2 months ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
TheCollector
The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
4 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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Europe's absent-minded revolution
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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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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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
4 months ago
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
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TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
TheCollector
5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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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...
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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....
TheCollector
Who Was Vernon Lee?
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History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
4 months ago
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
TheCollector
Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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TheCollector
Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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TheCollector
What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
12 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
Flashbak
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...
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
7 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
TheCollector
Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
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.
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
TheCollector
What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Overcoming Bias
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Wood stove installation
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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I talked to Terry Gross!
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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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...
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
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Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Brushing for Britain
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Brushing for Britain
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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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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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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What Is the Will to Power?
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
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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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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
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It's about having small expectations.
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Summary of changes for December
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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.
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Summary of changes for December 2023
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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