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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Overcoming Bias
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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