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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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And How Do We Learn?
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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state and society in south-central Africa
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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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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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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