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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Who Was Tertullian?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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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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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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