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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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What Was Négritude?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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a brief note on themes in African art.
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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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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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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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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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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How Iran Won the West
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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