Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Hundred Rabbits
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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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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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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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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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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CrimethInc.
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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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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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Hidden History
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Should We Navel Gaze?
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Who Was Julian?
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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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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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
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This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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