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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Moving With the Times?
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
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Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
6 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Hades
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Global Inequality...
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a week ago
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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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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