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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
a month ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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What Is an Antipope?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
7 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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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...
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
a month ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
4 months ago
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
4 months ago
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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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...
2 months ago
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
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The world that created Caravaggio
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
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