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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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US President or American Caesar?
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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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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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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7 months ago
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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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...
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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Immigration and crime: Denmark
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Early Bird is Ending
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TheCollector
5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Hades
The God of the Dead
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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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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
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TheCollector
What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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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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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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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.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Cosmodrome (1987)
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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