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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review ‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review JamesHoare Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures undefined
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples undefined
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions undefined
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher? undefined
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence undefined
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends undefined
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Weekend Roundup The Art of the Interesting
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872 An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving? undefined
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War undefined
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge undefined
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity? undefined
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein? undefined
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I On cartography as historical argument
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man? undefined
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A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911. state and society in south-central Africa
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera? undefined
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery” undefined
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James Joyce's Ulysses Retelling of the Odyssey
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend undefined
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Weekend Roundup Featuring Stephen Fry!
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World? undefined
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse undefined
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916. The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW) “Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986)     Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review ‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review JamesHoare Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures undefined
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By? undefined
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes “We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life   The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry undefined
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón undefined
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829 Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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a brief note on themes in African art. Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying undefined
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex undefined
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art undefined
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History “At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible? undefined
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A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina. State and society on Africa's largest island.
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse undefined
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case undefined
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World? undefined
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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...
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln “I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln     The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968 The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding.     These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca? undefined
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World undefined
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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The Ocarina The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture? undefined
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick JamesHoare Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville? undefined
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny undefined
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism undefined
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America undefined
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know undefined
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Why the Organ Split the Church Why the Organ Split the Church JamesHoare Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable? undefined
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review) undefined
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited undefined
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art undefined
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime undefined
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Would You Kill the Fat Man? Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024 Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
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Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler “Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC    Richard...
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination undefined
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans undefined
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression) Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor undefined
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine JamesHoare Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries? undefined
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981 “Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s  ...
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Philosophy and Children Event: THIS Saturday
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One, Two (1965) The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do. DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames undefined
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution undefined
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life undefined
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic undefined
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For undefined
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Cosmodrome (1987) Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome.  Admittedly it is...
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome.  Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi undefined
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests? undefined
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter undefined
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime undefined
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush undefined
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God undefined
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change undefined
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics undefined
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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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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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power? undefined
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures? undefined
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period. Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit!  A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema undefined
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization undefined
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How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat.  “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon undefined
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Summary of changes for May 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher undefined
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time? undefined
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided 50 Years of Cyprus Divided JamesHoare Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump undefined
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Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death j.hoare Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia undefined
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What Did the Beat Generation Want? undefined
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion undefined
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid undefined
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925) The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions.     Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains undefined
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory) undefined
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes undefined
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal? undefined
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979 When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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