TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
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TheCollector
Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Empedocles
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Three Cabins Left
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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TheCollector
Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
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This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
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TheCollector
4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus
Notes on Christian Syria
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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What Is Solipsism?
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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***Only 15 Seats Left
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
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We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
TheCollector
Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
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The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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The Art of the Interesting
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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The end and the beginning of history
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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