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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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Beware the Lides of March
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Understanding What's Happening in France.
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
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Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Remind me what it was, exactly ....
weird medieval guys
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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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 Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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