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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
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100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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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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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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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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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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What Is Populism?
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Summary of changes for November
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Aristotle on Luck
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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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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Beware the Lides of March
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Plato On Knowledge
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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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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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
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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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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Blindspots and Biographies
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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So Where Do We Go From Here?
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Philosophy and Children
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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African History...
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Service to what nation?
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Petra and Passports
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
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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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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
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To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Early Bird is Ending
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
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Even if the artists don't realise it.
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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