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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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What Was Négritude?
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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A Book 100 Years in the Making
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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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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Blindspots and Biographies
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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No, not that Agency.
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
TheCollector
Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
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Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
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Rules, Rules Rules
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Because that's all they can do.
TheCollector
Who Was Eusebius?
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Unlike For Like.
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
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But some things are more connected than others.
TheCollector
What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
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TheCollector
MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Nature in Greek Myth
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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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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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
6 months ago
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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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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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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The Ancient Ozempic
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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The Life of Terence
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
TheCollector
Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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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,...
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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They know what they think.
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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The Feminist Stoic?
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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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...
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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...
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
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“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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The Julio-Claudians
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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What Is Populism?
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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What Was the Chaco War?
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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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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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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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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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Hidden History
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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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