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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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The Death of Clive of India
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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No More Heroes.
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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The Mystery of Morpheus
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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The Many Roads to Rome
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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The Two Trojan Wars
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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