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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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What is the “Mind”?
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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No Women Allowed?
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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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...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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The Secret Life of Latin
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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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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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Global Inequality...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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TheCollector
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
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Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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How to Steal From Homer
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Res Obscura
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Was Alexander Great?
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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The Epics Collection
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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The Life of Terence
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
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Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
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A book review from the future.
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
a year ago
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
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When Was D-Day?
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Hidden History
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...
3 weeks ago
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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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
11 months ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
11 months ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
5 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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4 months ago
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
8 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
12 months ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Does Free Will Exist?
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
a month ago
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
a year ago
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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a year ago
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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