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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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In their own...
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
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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...
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
TheCollector
The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Hundred Rabbits
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
TheCollector
What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
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Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
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Because that's all they can do.
TheCollector
10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Classical Wisdom
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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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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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
TheCollector
Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
TheCollector
Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
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a complete history of an African monument
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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TheCollector
Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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TheCollector
Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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The World's First Computer
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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A Collection of...
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...
a year ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
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The Epics Collection
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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TheCollector
Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
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TheCollector
Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Classical Wisdom
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
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5 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
8 months ago
TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Classical Wisdom
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Plato and Atlantis
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TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
9 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
TheCollector
5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
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The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
TheCollector
Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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TheCollector
The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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2 months ago
African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
TheCollector
Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
Classical Wisdom
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Love and Death
a year ago
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Classical Wisdom
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Aristotle's Politics
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Classical Wisdom
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
TheCollector
What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
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TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
10 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a week ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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TheCollector
13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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a year ago
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
TheCollector
Who Was George Hodel?
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TheCollector
10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
3 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
TheCollector
America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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6 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...
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
11 months ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
Classical Wisdom
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
TheCollector
6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
6 months ago
TheCollector
College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
6 months ago
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Flashbak
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...
9 months ago
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...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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TheCollector
The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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History Today Feed
How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
11 months ago
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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TheCollector
6 Micronations You Should Know
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
a week ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
a year ago
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
11 months ago
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
TheCollector
The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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TheCollector
What Was the First Triumvirate?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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9 months ago
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...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
TheCollector
The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
a month ago
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
History Today Feed
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
a month ago
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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a year ago
TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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3 months ago
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
TheCollector
6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
2 months ago
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
TheCollector
Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
10 months ago
TheCollector
Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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a year ago
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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a month ago
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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8 months ago
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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a year ago
TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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3 months ago
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...
2 months ago
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.
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
3 weeks ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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a year ago
TheCollector
Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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2 months ago
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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3 months ago
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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a year ago
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