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Hidden History
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Early Christian Poetry
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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What Is Solipsism?
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Man the Hunter
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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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 …...
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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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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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Overcoming Bias
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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The Two Trojan Wars
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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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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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Free French Bombers Over France
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
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A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Why I love etymologies
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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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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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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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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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What Is Russian Futurism?
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