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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
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“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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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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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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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...
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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...
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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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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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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Tension-Filled Black Holes
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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The Fall of a Republic
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Things Don't Always Get Better.
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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Global Inequality...
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Leeds Kids the 1970s
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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Eternal Glory
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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