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Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won? The Silence of the Elephants
10 months ago
Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118.     Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
TheCollector
What Is the Second Epistle of Peter About? The Second Epistle of Peter (2 Peter) is a timeless epistle that speaks to the contemporary believer...
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The Second Epistle of Peter (2 Peter) is a timeless epistle that speaks to the contemporary believer as much as it did to the intended audience in the 1st century CE. The guidance on spiritual growth, false teaching, and the focus on the return of Christ resonates with Christians...
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...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great More than a Villain
a year ago
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A Year Living In Grand Central Station: A Photographer’s Pictures From 1978 “A lot of my images are from Grand Central station for a project I did,” says reader Bill Antin. “I...
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“A lot of my images are from Grand Central station for a project I did,” says reader Bill Antin. “I literally lived in the station for a year taking these images. It was my senior year photo thesis at the school of Visual Art in NYC. I spent many days and nights all over …...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
King Croesus Fate, Fortunes, and the Fall of an Empire
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Overcoming Bias
Gender Norms Are Complex, Opaque Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction,...
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Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction, especially using time travel, could make vivid how key norms and values have actually changed greatly over time, and not always in obviously good ways.
Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ? Another of my essays in French.
7 months ago
TheCollector
The Lost People Who Built Babylon and Vanished The Amorites were a Bronze Age people who were prevalent in the Levant and Near East. But for over a...
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The Amorites were a Bronze Age people who were prevalent in the Levant and Near East. But for over a century, historians and archaeologists have debated if they can even be considered a “people” in an ethnic or political sense. Early theories held that the Amorites were a...
Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters “This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming     Many … Continue reading "Dear...
Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz Anger and Alexander
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist? Does what goes around come around?
a year ago
TheCollector
The Music of the Romantic Era (with Examples) The Romantic Period, often placed in the 19th century but with roots in the late 18th century, is...
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The Romantic Period, often placed in the 19th century but with roots in the late 18th century, is associated with individual self-expression and a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment’s emphasis on logic and rationality. This period also rebelled against industrialization....
TheCollector
How Caravaggio’s Dramatic Use of Light Revolutionized Baroque Art Caravaggio’s dramatic chiaroscuro technique revolutionized Baroque painting. His use of light and...
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Caravaggio’s dramatic chiaroscuro technique revolutionized Baroque painting. His use of light and shadow as an expressive technique inspired countless artists and transformed the history of art. Instead of mathematical precision, the famous artist aimed for emotional impact....
Flashbak
Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice “Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart   Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
TheCollector
Discover the Irish Ogham, the Medieval “Tree Alphabet” Ogham, sometimes referred to as Ogam, was the earliest form of Irish writing. Otherwise known as the...
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Ogham, sometimes referred to as Ogam, was the earliest form of Irish writing. Otherwise known as the “tree alphabet” because of its distinctive branch shapes, connections have often been drawn between the Ogham alphabet and the ancient Druids, an Iron Age class of Celtic...
Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training The Ultimate Regime
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TheCollector
Exploring Tudor Fashion Through Art History: A Detailed Overview Sumptuary laws limited many of the clothing items that the lower and middle classes could wear....
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Sumptuary laws limited many of the clothing items that the lower and middle classes could wear. Politics often played an important role in how people dressed—from dressing to conform to social class expectations to making political statements about one’s government role or...
Open Culture
When The Twilight Zone Imagined Fascism in America in a 1963 Episode Starring Dennis Hopper Watch through The Twilight Zone, and you’ll find yourself spotting no end of familiar faces: Julie...
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Watch through The Twilight Zone, and you’ll find yourself spotting no end of familiar faces: Julie Newmar, Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Montgomery, William Shatner, even Buster Keaton. The 1963 episode “He’s Alive” is at least doubly notable in that respect, featuring...
TheCollector
The Three Graces “Charites” of Greek Mythology (Origins & Facts) The Charites, also known as the three Graces, were a group of beautiful goddesses who embodied...
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The Charites, also known as the three Graces, were a group of beautiful goddesses who embodied charm, grace, beauty, and joy. They presided over festival celebrations and were attendants to the goddess of love, Aphrodite. Initially, there were three Charites, but additional...
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
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This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
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We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc. 'If we can't...
TheCollector
7 Medieval Weapons & Armor The Medieval Period, which roughly stretched from 500 to 1500 CE, was a turbulent time of...
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The Medieval Period, which roughly stretched from 500 to 1500 CE, was a turbulent time of near-constant conflict. In order to gain an edge on the battlefield, armorers and weapons makers developed an astonishing variety of weapons to deal out damage and armor to keep a warrior...
Overcoming Bias
AI Is GPT, & GPTs Go Slow Back in the dot-com boom of the late 90s, many said a new economy loomed that invalidated all the...
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Back in the dot-com boom of the late 90s, many said a new economy loomed that invalidated all the old rules, and would soon cause big fast change.
TheCollector
6 Great Political Compromises That Shaped America The American nation under the US Constitution began with a compromise that, among other things,...
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The American nation under the US Constitution began with a compromise that, among other things, quelled the founding fathers’ anxieties over slavery and racial equality before the law. As the United States grew in size and influence, the very same issue would bring future leaders...
TheCollector
What Was the Significance of Philippi and Colossae in Biblical History? The Apostle Paul traveled throughout much of the Roman Empire in the first century spreading...
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The Apostle Paul traveled throughout much of the Roman Empire in the first century spreading Christianity and preaching to people and churches. Two of the cities he visited were Philippi in Greece and Colossae in Asia Minor (now Turkey).   Philippi Before Paul Arrived   Philippi...
Open Culture
In 1927, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created a Dystopian Vision of What the World Would Look Like in... Ultra-tall high-rises against dark skies. A huge distance between the rich and the poor. Robber...
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Ultra-tall high-rises against dark skies. A huge distance between the rich and the poor. Robber barons at the helm of large-scale industrial operations that turn man into machine. Machines that have become intelligent enough to displace man. These have all been standard elements...
Flashbak
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,...
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Black Hawk War: Fighting Back Against US Westward Expansion As the United States expanded westwards, Native Americans were subjected to cultural genocide,...
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As the United States expanded westwards, Native Americans were subjected to cultural genocide, foreign diseases, and territorial loss. Faced with destruction and herded onto reservations, many Native Americans resisted what was happening to them and decided to take action.   In...
TheCollector
10 Historic Maritime Sites on the East Coast Stretching from the rocky harbors of Maine to the barrier islands of North Carolina, the East Coast...
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Stretching from the rocky harbors of Maine to the barrier islands of North Carolina, the East Coast of the United States is a living archive of the nation’s maritime history. This coastline saw merchant ships launch into global trade, naval battles that helped shape independence,...
TheCollector
What Do Pentecostals Believe? The Pentecostal Movement exploded onto the ecclesiastical scene in 1906, and the growth of this...
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The Pentecostal Movement exploded onto the ecclesiastical scene in 1906, and the growth of this movement has been remarkable. The origins of Pentecostalism can be traced to Topeka, Kansas, and the ministry of Charles Parham, but it was not until a student of Parham moved to Los...
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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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...
Trying to Understand...
The Long And The Short Of It. Or, in defence of nuance.
a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld Real or Fantasy?
over a year ago
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage "Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
Overcoming Bias
Toward More Direct Signals As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should...
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As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should address a key signaling question, about which I was recently reminded.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
TheCollector
How Did Plato Influence the Early Church? Plato played an important role in the works of several Church Fathers as they defended the truth...
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Plato played an important role in the works of several Church Fathers as they defended the truth claims of Christianity in the early centuries. The writings of Church Fathers like Justin Martyr, Clement of Rome, and Origen demonstrate how Plato was used to synthesize Christianity...
TheCollector
Baths of Caracalla: Public Baths in Imperial Rome Much of what we know about individual Roman emperors comes from what they chose to build. In the 1st...
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Much of what we know about individual Roman emperors comes from what they chose to build. In the 1st century CE, Nero was vilified for his greed, hoovering up great tracts of the city to turn into a private palace, the infamous Domus Aurea. A decade later, Vespasian was lauded...
TheCollector
How Slaves Created the Free Greek State of Ancient Messenia Beneath the foundations of the legendary Spartan political system labored the oppressed Messenians....
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Beneath the foundations of the legendary Spartan political system labored the oppressed Messenians. Messenia, a prosperous corner of southwestern Greece, was conquered by the Spartans in the 8th century BCE. Its population, along with elements of the Spartan region of Lakonia,...
TheCollector
What Is Atonement in Christianity? (7 Theories) In just under two millennia, Christianity has grown from a fledgling religion to the biggest in the...
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In just under two millennia, Christianity has grown from a fledgling religion to the biggest in the world, with around 2.3 billion adherents. With so many Christians and such a long time during which Christian theology has developed and refined, it is surprising that there is no...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed? How can we train Resilience?
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Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero? The Ancient Ideals of Heroism: Odysseus and Aeneas
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Global Inequality...
Pensioners for war Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of...
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Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of Succession”, I noticed an interesting phenomenon.
TheCollector
Calypso, the Nymph Who Held Odysseus Captive Calypso was a beautiful nymph who lived alone on the isolated island of Ogygia. Her solitude changed...
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Calypso was a beautiful nymph who lived alone on the isolated island of Ogygia. Her solitude changed when the shipwrecked hero Odysseus washed ashore. Calypso fell in love with him and offered him immortality and an idyllic paradise in exchange for staying with her and marrying...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...