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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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US President or American Caesar?
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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African History...
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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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...
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What Is the Will to Power?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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The Electoral College Explained
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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