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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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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...
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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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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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government in central Africa.
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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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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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Democracy
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
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But right back where we started from.
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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The End of Power Projection?
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Can Any Good Come From War?
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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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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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Beyond Stoicism
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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