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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
a year ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
9 months ago
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
4 weeks ago
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
9 months ago
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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‘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
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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Myths and Metamorphoses
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
a year ago
The Essential Greeks Returns!
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
2 months ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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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...
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
4 months ago
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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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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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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