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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Can Any Good Come From War?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Petra and Passports
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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What’s the History of Gin?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
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Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
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In politics, well, it depends.
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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A Few Spots Left
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
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Have they any idea what they are talking about?
Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
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6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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7 African Myths About Animals
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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What Is Solipsism?
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