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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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New Year, Old Books
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
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Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
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“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
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Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
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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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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How to Give a Speech
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
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Wars and ideology simplified
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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The Furies
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
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51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
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First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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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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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Battle of the Historians
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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