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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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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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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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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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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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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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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Summary of changes for April
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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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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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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A Brief History of Chile
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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Summary of changes for July 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Summary of changes for May 2023
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a year ago
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.
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100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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The Essential Greeks
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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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...
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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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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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