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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Sex Before Sex Education
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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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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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Patterns in Humanity
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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over a year ago
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.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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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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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Love and Death
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
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This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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The Furies
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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