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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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The Cyclops
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Global Inequality...
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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Summary of changes for May
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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.
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Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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It's worse than you probably imagine.
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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A Brief History of Chile
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
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The Death of Clive of India
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What Is Theodicy?
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
7 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
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Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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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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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
10 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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