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When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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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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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Trying to Understand...
The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
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The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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The Tudor War on Libel
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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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...
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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...
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Global Inequality...
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Plato On Knowledge
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
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It was all too difficult, finally.
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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Socrates and the Soul
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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