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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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What Is an Antipope?
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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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...
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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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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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Overcoming Bias
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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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...
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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