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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
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Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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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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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
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Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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