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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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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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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
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An experiment with historical simulation
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Open Culture
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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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
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And how does it reflect on us?
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
4 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Flashbak
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Overcoming Bias
What Culture Can You Trust?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
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Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
Flashbak
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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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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When The Music's Over ...
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
Flashbak
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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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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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
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
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TheCollector
Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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