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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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the rock of polynesia
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We'd also heard that the school...
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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A Collection of...
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Is Theodicy?
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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10 months ago
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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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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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Should Death Concern Us?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over 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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Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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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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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Should poor countries remain poor?
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
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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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
TheCollector
What Is Capoeira?
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Stoicism and Stress
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Hades
The God of the Dead
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
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Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
TheCollector
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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