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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
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A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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When Was the First Crusade?
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
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The international system, that is.
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
a year ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
Classical Wisdom
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6 months ago
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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The politics of physiocracy
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
9 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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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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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
9 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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