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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Res Obscura
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
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The international system, that is.
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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The Threat of Back to Normal
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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Dreams of Space -...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
8 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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African History...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
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JamesHoare
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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JamesHoare
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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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...
Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
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.
TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
a year ago
an island in the maelstrom
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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JamesHoare
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Should We Be Skeptics?
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Is it good to question everything?
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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A Collection of...
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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The Electoral College Explained
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Patterns in Humanity
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
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a complete history of an African monument
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
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On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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