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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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The kinetic phase may come next.
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Overcoming Bias
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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What Is Voguing?
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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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.
The Moon
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
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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A history of the Buganda kingdom.
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government in central Africa.
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The Politics of Exhaustion.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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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...
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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 Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Which Playwright did it better?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
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Or does war have its virtues?
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
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And what happens when we don’t?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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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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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Patterns in Humanity
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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