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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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A Wasting Asset?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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The Modern World Is Boring.
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Games Nations Play.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
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A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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Who Was George Eliot?
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Another Of My Essays In French
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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