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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Beware Policy Abstraction
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Summary Of Changes
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Essential Classics
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
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History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Albert Einstein: The Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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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...
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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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...
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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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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Hundred Rabbits
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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