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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
Trying to Understand...
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Eternal Glory
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
9 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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The War on the Countryside
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The Shire must be brought to heel
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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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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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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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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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
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Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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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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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
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