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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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What Was Jim Crow?
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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TheCollector
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
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TheCollector
10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
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on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
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Ancient Podcasts
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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You And Whose Army?
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TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
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Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
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It's worse than you probably imagine.
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
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An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
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And Now for Something Completely Different.
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Can Any Good Come From War?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Love And War And Status
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How the South Became Republican
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
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Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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The Sense Of An Ending.
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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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
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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