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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Blast Off (1973)
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This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
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And the Palace where it was found...
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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Secrets of the Scythians
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
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... and the Fall of the Republic
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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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...
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
11 months ago
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
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In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
TheCollector
10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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TheCollector
Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Flashbak
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Art of the Hellenistic Period
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
7 months ago
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
10 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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