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One, Two (1965)
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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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,...
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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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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Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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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
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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What Is Populism?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Origins of Stoicism
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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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...
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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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...
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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...
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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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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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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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...
over a year ago
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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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
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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...
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How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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Games Nations Play.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Service to what nation?
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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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...
11 months ago
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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Aristotle's Poetics
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Who speaks of the Armenians?
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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