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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Space Witch (1959)
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
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“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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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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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Summary of changes for September 2024
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Global Inequality...
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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A very deep history of Halloween
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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What Is Thatcherism?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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