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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Reality Would Like A Word.
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Patterns in Humanity
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Res Obscura
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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African History...
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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JamesHoare
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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How Iran Won the West
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
3 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Winged Victory
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Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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Plutarch and Pleasure
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
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Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
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a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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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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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
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6 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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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),...
a year ago
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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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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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...
4 months ago
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...
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Why Socrates Matters
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“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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The Modern World Is Boring.
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
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Why the liberal project will fail
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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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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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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