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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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What Was the Chaco War?
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Empress Theodora
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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Secrets of the Scythians
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
Flashbak
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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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
a week ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Global Inequality...
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Wars and ideology simplified
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Wars and ideology simplified
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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The Pompeii Mosaics
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
11 months ago
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:13
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Who Was George Hodel?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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The Story of Thebes
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
a year ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
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In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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