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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Ovid's Dating Advice
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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TheCollector
Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Let's Be Enemies
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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The Essential Greeks
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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African History...
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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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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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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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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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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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...
5 months ago
“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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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Summary of changes for July
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Fate and Free Will
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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How to Save Democracy
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Free French Bombers Over France
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Trying to Understand...
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Dreams of Space -...
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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