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What is Pantheism in Art?
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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TheCollector
What Is Transcendentalism?
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African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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TheCollector
Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
TheCollector
Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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TheCollector
The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
TheCollector
Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
TheCollector
How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
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But some things are more connected than others.
Classical Wisdom
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
TheCollector
4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
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Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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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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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
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Why the liberal project will fail
TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
TheCollector
10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
TheCollector
Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
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10 months ago
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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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...
6 months ago
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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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
5 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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TheCollector
Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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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...
TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Living through another great transformation…
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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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...
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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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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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The Many Roads to Rome
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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The Furies
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Patterns in Humanity
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
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A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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Rules, Rules Rules
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Because that's all they can do.
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Macron is Safe for the Moment
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But the future worries me.
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
Overcoming Bias
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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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...
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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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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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