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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Dr Alun Withey
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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US President or American Caesar?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Battle of the Historians
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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TheCollector
Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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African History...
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
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a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
TheCollector
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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African History...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
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4 months ago
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
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A history of the monastic high life
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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TheCollector
King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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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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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
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We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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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...
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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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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Plato On Knowledge
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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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 Early Years of Jesus
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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Virgil and the Aeneid
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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