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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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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...
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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 Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
12 months ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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A Brief History of Chile
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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The True Knights Templar
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The True Knights Templar
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Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
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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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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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We Are All Civilisational States
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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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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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
3 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
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A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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What Is Populism?
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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