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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Summary of changes for April 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 April.
Summary Of Changes
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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People, States and Borders.
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Dream to Meet(1958)
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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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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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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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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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
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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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Summary of changes for June 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 June.
Summary Of Changes
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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