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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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St. Nicholas
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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You don't need to know that.
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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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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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
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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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Hades
The God of the Dead
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Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
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Both in the ancient world... and today?
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Love And War And Status
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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The Great Flood
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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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...
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
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Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Secrets of the Sirens
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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History Today Review of the Year
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
TheCollector
Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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TheCollector
Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
TheCollector
Who Was Walt Whitman?
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
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The world that created Caravaggio
TheCollector
Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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History Today Feed
‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
7 months ago
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
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Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
10 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
Flashbak
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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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
10 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Weekend Roundup
Last Chance!
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
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But the future worries me.
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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