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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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a home for pino
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
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Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the Love of the Classics
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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a year ago
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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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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The Nature of Love
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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What Is Thatcherism?
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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History Today Feed
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
TheCollector
Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Classical Wisdom
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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The three German fears
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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Who Was George Hodel?
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Secret of the Stoics
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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The Lives of Exiles
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
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TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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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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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
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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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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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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.
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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What Government Governs Best?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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Global Inequality...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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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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Calm in the Face of Crisis
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Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Patterns in Humanity
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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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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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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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,...
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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