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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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the rock of polynesia
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Moving With the Times?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Summary of changes for April 2024
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Tolkien and the Classics
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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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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Global Inequality...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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The Great Experience (1963)
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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over a year ago
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.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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The True Knights Templar
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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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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
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The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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How Iran Won the West
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
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100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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What Government Governs Best?
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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