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Summary Of Changes
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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6 months ago
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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a year ago
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
2 weeks ago
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
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An indispensable organization
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
10 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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3 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
2 months ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
TheCollector
The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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6 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
a week ago
TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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2 months ago
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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9 months ago
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
5 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
Wrong Side of...
Britain's sinking reputation
The Anglo diaspora is horrified by the old country
4 days ago
The Anglo diaspora is horrified by the old country
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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a year ago
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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11 months ago
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
a year ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
TheCollector
5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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a year ago
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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4 months ago
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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9 months ago
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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a year ago
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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a year ago
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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2 months ago
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Welcome To Holy Land USA: Inside America’s Jerusalem, 1980
“You can tell that Garry Winogrand was my hero. I learned so much from him about how to tell a story...
5 days ago
“You can tell that Garry Winogrand was my hero. I learned so much from him about how to tell a story or a joke within a frame” – Lisa Barlow, Holy Land, USA In 1980s, Lisa Barlow found Jerusalem in a turning off Connecticut’s Route 69. A huge cross on the roadside alerted …...
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
10 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
Flashbak
Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
8 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
7 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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4 months ago
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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10 months ago
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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4 months ago
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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a year ago
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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2 months ago
Open Culture
Why the Tavern Scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Is a Master Class in Filmmaking
Ideally, a viewer should be able to identify the work of a particular auteur from any one scene that...
3 days ago
Ideally, a viewer should be able to identify the work of a particular auteur from any one scene that the auteur has directed. In reality, it’s not always possible to do so, even in the work of filmmakers with highly idiosyncratic styles. But in the case of Quentin Tarantino, it...
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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3 months ago
African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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11 months ago
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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7 months ago
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
a year ago
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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5 months ago
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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9 months ago
TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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a year ago
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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7 months ago
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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9 months ago
TheCollector
‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
3 months ago
Heraclitus against Parmenides
TheCollector
6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
3 weeks ago
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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a year ago
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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10 months ago
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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a year ago
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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a year ago
TheCollector
Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
2 months ago
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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...
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Important Notification
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8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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***Now Enrolling: Starting January 15th, 2025
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
7 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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a year ago
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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a year ago
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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a year ago
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
a month ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
4 weeks ago
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
TheCollector
What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
a year ago
The Life and Work of Pheidias
TheCollector
Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
a year ago
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
TheCollector
Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Can Perfumes Be Art? Famous Artists Who Designed Perfume Bottles
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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9 months ago
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
11 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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2 months ago
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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a year ago
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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a year ago
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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a year ago
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
7 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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