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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Should Death Concern Us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Unlike For Like.
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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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?
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The end and the beginning of history
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Flashbak
Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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...
a week ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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TheCollector
Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Teach Your Children ....
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
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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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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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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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Another Of My Essays in French
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Original Femme Fatales?
Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
TheCollector
Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
History Today Feed
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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TheCollector
Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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over a year ago
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The Early Years of Jesus
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
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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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
7 months ago
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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Open Culture
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...
Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
2 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Stoicism and Stress
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Empedocles
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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The Evils Of Professionalism
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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On general futility of political discussions with people
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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