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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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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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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
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12 months ago
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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Plato Vs Aristotle
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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And Those Like Him?
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Hundred Rabbits
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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
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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How to Give a Speech
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a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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a year ago
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History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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TheCollector
New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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CrimethInc.
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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8 months ago
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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11 months ago
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
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Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
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Dreams of Space -...
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a year ago
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
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a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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TheCollector
Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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But slowly ...
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
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TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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The Mystery of the Mind
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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a year ago
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
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Or does war have its virtues?
Flashbak
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Prometheus and AI?
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
TheCollector
Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
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Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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Celebrate Cicero!
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
TheCollector
How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
3 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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