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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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What Is Solipsism?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Dreams of Space -...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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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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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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The Life of Aristotle
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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The KGB After Stalin
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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A History of the United States Senate
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
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Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Hidden History
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Overcoming Bias
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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