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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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over a year ago
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https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
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I...
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Essential Classics
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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A History of the United States Senate
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
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Hidden History
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Last Chance
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Trying to Understand...
The Long Run.
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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A Strange Defeat.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Hundred Rabbits
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Tension-Filled Black Holes
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
TheCollector
Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Flashbak
Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of...
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Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of his adopted city of Philadelphia and the aeronautical industry, and photographs of lightning. Setting out to prove “lightning bolts were not of the zig-zag form pictured by artists”,...
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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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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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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TheCollector
New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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Flashbak
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
TheCollector
Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
TheCollector
The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Classical Wisdom
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
11 months ago
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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