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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
8 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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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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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
Classical Wisdom
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Fate and Free Will
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
11 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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The War on the Countryside
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Res Obscura
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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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...
5 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.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
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Because that's all they can do.
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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The Wages Of Fear
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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
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 …...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
8 months ago
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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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
11 months ago
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Last Chance!
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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3 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
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Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
7 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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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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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British 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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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
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The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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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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And the Boundless Universe
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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African History...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Should We Be Skeptics?
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Res Obscura
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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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...
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
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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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a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Open Culture
Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
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Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John Lydon, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, former Woody Guthrie impersonator Bob Dylan.… Luckily for me, this ain’t just fantasy baseball; at various times,...
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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