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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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The Early Years of Jesus
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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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...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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The Silence of the Elephants
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
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Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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What Are Conlangs?
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
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The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
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One I bought fifty years ago.
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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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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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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