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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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What Was the First Written Language?
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Both in the ancient world... and today?
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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TheCollector
How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Hundred Rabbits
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
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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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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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What's it going to be, then?
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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The Essential Greeks
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
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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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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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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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
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Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Early Bird is Ending
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Getting our events straight...
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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What Is the Didache?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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...
Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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a year ago
The international system, that is.
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
A Collection of...
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...
10 months ago
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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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Understanding political violence.
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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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.
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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