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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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War in Dreamland
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
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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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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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On general futility of political discussions with people
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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Rome's Worst General?
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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