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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Great Flood
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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over a year ago
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...
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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The order of inequality
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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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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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Trying to Understand...
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We-ell, you know ....
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state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
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But striking poses is fun and easy.
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Sex Before Sex Education
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TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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What Was the Chaco War?
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
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On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
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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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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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