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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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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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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Does Free Will Exist?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
7 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
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And some bits and pieces.
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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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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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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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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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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