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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
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Is it good, bad or relative?
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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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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The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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The Art of the Interesting
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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The Many Roads to Rome
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
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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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Living through another great transformation…
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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The Sense Of An Ending.
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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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...
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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The Death of Clive of India
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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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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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
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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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
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But is there anything there?
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
a month ago
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
a month ago
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
11 months ago
... and the Fall of the Republic
TheCollector
Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
4 months ago
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
6 days ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
a week ago
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,...
African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
11 months ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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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...
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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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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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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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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Weekend Roundup
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Plato on Political Polarization
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
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An indispensable organization
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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A History of the United States Senate
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Last Chance
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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History Today Feed
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Wrong Side of...
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Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
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Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
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TheCollector
What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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Belief in the Ancient World
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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The Life of Aristotle
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
a month ago
TheCollector
Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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