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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Dreams of Space -...
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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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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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Should We Be More Naked?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Trump and the Rise of Asia
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Early Bird is Ending
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
2 weeks ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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