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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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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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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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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...
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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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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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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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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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The Art of the Interesting
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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What Is an Antipope?
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A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
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They are quite serious, actually.
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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So They Want Negotiations, Now.
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Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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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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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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