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Dreams of Space -...
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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over a year ago
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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The World's First Computer
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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War in Dreamland
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The War on the Countryside
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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People, States and Borders.
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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