Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
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...
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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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...
11 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...
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
a year ago
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
2 days ago
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
5 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
TheCollector
Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
TheCollector
Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
3 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
Flashbak
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...
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
7 months ago
But they forget the people and the Street.
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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)
Flashbak
Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
TheCollector
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
2 months ago
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
6 months ago
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
TheCollector
What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
2 weeks ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
6 months ago
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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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...
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
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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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
Who Was George Hodel?
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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History Today Feed
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
8 months ago
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
TheCollector
Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
5 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Roman Empire Podcasts
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The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Another Of My Essays in French
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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When Was the First Crusade?
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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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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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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