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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
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The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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A Week Off And A New Language
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Tolkien and Plato
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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...
7 months ago
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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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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The Cyclops
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Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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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...
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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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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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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Into the Waste Land
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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A very deep history of Halloween
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Little People With Agency.
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The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
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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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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Lost and Found
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Hundred Rabbits
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We left our mooring at...
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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History Today Review of the Year
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TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Overcoming Bias
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Origins of Latin Literature
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
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 Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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The case for prisons
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The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
Dr Alun Withey
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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Rules, Rules Rules
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Because that's all they can do.
TheCollector
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Why Socrates Matters
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
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This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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