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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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7 months ago
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
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over a year ago
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We left our mooring at...
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Important Notice
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Global Inequality...
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a year ago
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Flashbak
Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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A Collection of...
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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The KGB After Stalin
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TheCollector
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Flashbak
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Classical Wisdom
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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Advice from the Ancients
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TheCollector
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Classical Wisdom
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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TheCollector
What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Flashbak
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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Trying to Understand...
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Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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History Today Feed
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
TheCollector
Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
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TheCollector
7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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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?
a year ago
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TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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TheCollector
When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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TheCollector
French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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TheCollector
Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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TheCollector
3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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TheCollector
12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
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JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
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JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Live in India?
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TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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TheCollector
The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
a year ago
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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TheCollector
What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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TheCollector
7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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TheCollector
Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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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...
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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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?
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
3 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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History Today Feed
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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TheCollector
Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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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...
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“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...
Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Classical Wisdom
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The End of the World?
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
5 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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TheCollector
Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Trying to Understand...
The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
10 months ago
But can they get their heads round it?
TheCollector
Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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TheCollector
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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