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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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goji no chaimu
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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The Diversity Paradox.
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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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TheCollector
Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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What Priority The Innocent?
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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What Is the Will to Power?
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
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In politics, well, it depends.
TheCollector
How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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