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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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The "New" Ancient City
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Blindspots and Biographies
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
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 December.
Summary Of Changes
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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Dreams of Space -...
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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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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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The Life of Aristotle
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The Machine Stops.
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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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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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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A Collection of...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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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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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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The Newer World Order.
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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How to Revive Wassailing
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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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...
9 months ago
“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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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
4 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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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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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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