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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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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Summary of changes for February
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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What Is Capoeira?
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Into the Waste Land
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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Euripides
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Plato on Political Polarization
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Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Why are MYTHS Important?
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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The Many Roads to Rome
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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