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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Res Obscura
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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a year ago
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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A Collection of...
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5 months ago
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
2 months ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
4 months ago
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
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The Wages Of Fear
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8 months ago
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
11 months ago
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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a year ago
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
a year ago
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Summary of changes for September 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Patterns in Humanity
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A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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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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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
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“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Global Inequality...
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
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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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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
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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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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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A History of the United States Senate
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
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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.
'If we can't...
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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Who Was Averroes?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
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It was all too difficult, finally.
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The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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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...
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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