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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Hundred Rabbits
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Death of the King of Siam
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 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 June.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Does Karma Exist?
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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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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In Praise of the Preterite
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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CrimethInc.
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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What is Modernity?
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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