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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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What Was Organization Todt?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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The Two Big Games
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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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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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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What Is Solipsism?
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
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“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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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.
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
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On cartography as historical argument
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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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...
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 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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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Beyond Stoicism
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New Event: January 7th, 2025
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
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