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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
a week ago
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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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...
a year ago
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...
History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
a week ago
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
a week ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
TheCollector
8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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Flashbak
Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
TheCollector
Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
a week ago
But is there anything there?
TheCollector
Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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TheCollector
Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
10 months ago
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
TheCollector
5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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TheCollector
7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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TheCollector
Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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TheCollector
Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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TheCollector
Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
6 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
3 weeks ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
TheCollector
How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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TheCollector
Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
6 months ago
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
TheCollector
Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
TheCollector
What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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TheCollector
5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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TheCollector
The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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TheCollector
Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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TheCollector
Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Flashbak
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....
a month ago
“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 ...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
4 days ago
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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TheCollector
Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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TheCollector
6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
10 South American Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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TheCollector
Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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TheCollector
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
2 weeks ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
TheCollector
Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
10 months ago
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
4 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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TheCollector
Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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TheCollector
What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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TheCollector
Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
a year ago
...and the feared Persian Army
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Flashbak
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,...
10 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
a month ago
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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CrimethInc.
Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
3 weeks ago
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
TheCollector
Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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TheCollector
5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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TheCollector
American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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TheCollector
Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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TheCollector
Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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TheCollector
10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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TheCollector
Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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TheCollector
Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
3 months ago
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
TheCollector
7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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TheCollector
Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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