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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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TheCollector
The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Does Marcus Matter?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Did Jesus Live in India?
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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TheCollector
Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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TheCollector
Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
TheCollector
10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
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a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
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.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
TheCollector
5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
TheCollector
7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
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This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
TheCollector
How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
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Some people never grow up.
Flashbak
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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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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A Week Off And A New Language
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
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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.
Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Wrong Side of...
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When The Music's Over ...
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TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Flashbak
Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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