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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Summary of changes for September
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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.
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
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In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
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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...
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“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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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
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A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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What Is Solipsism?
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
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Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
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Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
a month ago
Another of my essays in French.
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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What Is Gnosticism?
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
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They are quite serious, actually.
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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What Is the Didache?
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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