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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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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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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Gaius Marius
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
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5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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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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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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Betrayed By Culture
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2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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The Nature of Love
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
10 months ago
“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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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Magna Graecia
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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How Iran Won the West
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JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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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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No Meta Status Orgs
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt ...
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“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
a year ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
6 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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