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Many of the...
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Weekend Roundup
Early Christianity
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
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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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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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.
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
11 months ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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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...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
a week ago
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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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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What Is an Antipope?
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
5 months ago
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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