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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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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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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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No End Of A Lesson.
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What Was the First Written Language?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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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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Myths and Metamorphoses
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Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
Overcoming Bias
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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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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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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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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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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The Life of Aristotle
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Early Christianity
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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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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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