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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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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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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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In Praise of the Preterite
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
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a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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African History...
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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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6 months ago
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Monsters of Mythology
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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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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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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To all the newspapers I loved
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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A Brief History of Chile
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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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...
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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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...
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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...
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...
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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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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Important Notice
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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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...
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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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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Art of the Etruscans
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
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This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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