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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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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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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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What Are Conlangs?
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
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“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Why I love etymologies
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
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Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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War Is Complicated.
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Overcoming Bias
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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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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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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