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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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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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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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What’s the History of Gin?
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Hidden History
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
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Is it good, bad or relative?
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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The Machine Stops.
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Aristotle on Friendship
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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The Fall of a Republic
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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