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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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Young Technician December, 1957
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
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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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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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The "New" Ancient City
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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Summary of changes for June
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
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Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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