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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Beard Fashions and Class
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
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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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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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A Collection of...
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Beware Value Dashboards
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Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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The Art of the Interesting
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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