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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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History Today Feed
‘Ocean’ and ‘Tracks on the Ocean’ review
‘Ocean’ and ‘Tracks on the Ocean’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/06/2025 - 11:02
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‘Ocean’ and ‘Tracks on the Ocean’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/06/2025 - 11:02
TheCollector
Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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What Are Slavoj Žižek’s Most Intriguing Ideas?
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History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
5 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
8 months ago
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
4 months ago
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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3 months ago
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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9 months ago
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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11 months ago
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5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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9 months ago
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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History Today Feed
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
8 months ago
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
10 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
African History...
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...
9 months ago
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...
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
History Today Feed
The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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a year ago
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
2 weeks ago
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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TheCollector
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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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...
a month ago
“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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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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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...
7 months ago
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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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
TheCollector
Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
10 months ago
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
2 months ago
The world that created Caravaggio
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
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Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
2 months ago
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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10 months ago
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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9 months ago
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
3 weeks ago
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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a year ago
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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a year ago
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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10 months ago
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
a month ago
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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