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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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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...
6 months ago
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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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
TheCollector
Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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TheCollector
9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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The Scottish Play
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TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
6 months ago
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
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Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
TheCollector
A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
TheCollector
A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
a year ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
TheCollector
Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
a year ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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TheCollector
Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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a year ago
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
TheCollector
What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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TheCollector
Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
TheCollector
6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
TheCollector
Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
TheCollector
7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
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TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
TheCollector
When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
What Is Conceptual Photography?
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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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...
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
2 months ago
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
TheCollector
5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
3 weeks ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
TheCollector
Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
TheCollector
A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
a month ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
a year ago
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
11 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
8 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
TheCollector
How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Classical Wisdom
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
2 months ago
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
TheCollector
Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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