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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
3 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Ovid's Dating Advice
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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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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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Artemisia of Caria
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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The Evils Of Professionalism
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
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A history of the monastic high life
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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