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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Summary of changes for May
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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JamesHoare
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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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...
3 weeks ago
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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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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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...
5 months ago
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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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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What’s the History of Gin?
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Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
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African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
A Collection of...
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...
a year ago
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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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Flashbak
Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
Hidden History
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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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
7 months ago
But they forget the people and the Street.
TheCollector
3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
2 months ago
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
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It's about having small expectations.
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
6 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
TheCollector
15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
Classical Wisdom
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Plato and Atlantis
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TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Hundred Rabbits
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
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
TheCollector
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
8 months ago
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
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World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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Man-Made Moons (1960)
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
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Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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