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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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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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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Global Inequality...
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Bringing It All Back Home
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
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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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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
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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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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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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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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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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...
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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