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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Der Struwwelpeter: Heinrich Hoffmann’s Deadly Book For Naughty Children
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Patterns in Humanity
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5 months ago
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
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“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Dreams of Space -...
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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demystifying an ancient African society
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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What Was Négritude?
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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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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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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7 African Myths About Animals
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez...
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A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early nineteen-sixties and subsequent electrified break with it, has been praised for not taking excessive liberties, at least by the standards of popular music biopics. Its conversion of a...
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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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.
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Monsters of Mythology
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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What Is the Ides of March?
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Stoicism and Stress
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970)
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world...
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What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The...
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Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
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Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
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Was Alexander Great?
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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Technology indistinguishable from magic
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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Why Socrates Matters
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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