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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
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Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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a month ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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What Is an Antipope?
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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JamesHoare
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Happy Holidays!
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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The Mystery of Penelope
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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The Many Roads to Rome
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Gods Vs Titans
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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The True Knights Templar
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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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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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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US President or American Caesar?
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
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The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
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What is the “Mind”?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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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...
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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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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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Global Inequality...
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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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Socrates and the Soul
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Virgil and the Aeneid
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Ovid's Dating Advice
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the promise of pancakes
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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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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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
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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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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...
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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