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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Ancient Atomists
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Patterns in Humanity
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Dreams of Space -...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
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Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
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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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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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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
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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