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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
5 days ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
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a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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