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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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War in Dreamland
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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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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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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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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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Games Nations Play.
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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The Cyclops
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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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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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
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You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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