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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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What Is the Ides of March?
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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over a year ago
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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The demonstrators are responding to the...
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Philosopher Kings
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A Collection of...
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Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Global Inequality...
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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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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Dreams of Space -...
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over a year ago
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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10 months ago
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Classical Wisdom
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Count no man happy until the end is known
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
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Clyne,...
Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
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TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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JamesHoare
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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A Collection of...
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
11 months ago
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Dreams of Space -...
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Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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African History...
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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TheCollector
A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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History Today Feed
How the CCP is Closing China
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Secrets of the Scythians
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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What Is Capoeira?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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a brief note on themes in African art.
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
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a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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The Essential Greeks
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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Lost and Found
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What Was Négritude?
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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8 months ago
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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