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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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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 Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
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a home for pino
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
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Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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New Year, Old Books
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Sex Before Sex Education
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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