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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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What Is Theodicy?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
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The Mystery of Morpheus
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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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...
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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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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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