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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Another Of My Essays in French
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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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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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Building Reading Skills (1951)
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
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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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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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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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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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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Another Of My Essays in French
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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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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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
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TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
9 months ago
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TheCollector
The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
TheCollector
Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
TheCollector
7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
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Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
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Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
Flashbak
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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TheCollector
Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
TheCollector
Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
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Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Ancient Olympics
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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No Left Turn
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
TheCollector
Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Nature in Greek Myth
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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