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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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a year ago
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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over a year ago
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
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a year ago
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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weird medieval guys
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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A Collection of...
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
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TheCollector
Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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History Today Feed
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Classical Wisdom
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
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Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
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TheCollector
Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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Origins of Latin Literature
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
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This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
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At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Prometheus and AI?
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The Birth of Ovid
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Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
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The Birth of Ovid
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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What Is Populism?
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France Saves Europe.
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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