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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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How the South Became Republican
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Res Obscura
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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The First Stoic
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
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Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
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Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Even if the artists don't realise it.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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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...
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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What Was Organization Todt?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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