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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Hundred Rabbits
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Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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3 months ago
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Plutarch and Pleasure
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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A Collection of...
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Bringing It All Back Home
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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TheCollector
Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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Open Culture
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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A Collection of...
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This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Overcoming Bias
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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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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The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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The Great Flood
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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Art of the Etruscans
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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Empedocles
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Open Culture
Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Open Culture
Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Flashbak
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...
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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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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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TheCollector
Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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TheCollector
7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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11 months ago
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