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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
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11 months ago
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Beyond Stoicism
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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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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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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Patterns in Humanity
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
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Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Should We Be More Naked?
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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The Tudor War on Libel
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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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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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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Who Was Vortigern?
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Classical Wisdom
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Can Any Good Come From War?
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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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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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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