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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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10 Ancient Greek Sculptures You Must Know
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Service to what nation?
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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Welcoming the stranger
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
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Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
TheCollector
Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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The Mystery of Morpheus
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Who is the God of Dreams?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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Wrong Side of...
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
over a year ago
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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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Luigi Cherubini’s Medea: An Ancient Greek Opera Diva
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
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Here are a few modest ideas.
TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Global Inequality...
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
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TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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TheCollector
Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
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According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
a year ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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A Collection of...
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...
a month ago
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...
TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Is Sufism a Part of Islam or Separate From It?
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Arizona
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
7 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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...
a year 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...
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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What Are the Ethical Values of Gen Z?
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Do Coincidences Mean Anything? Exploring Carl Jung’s Notion of Synchronicity
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
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And Her Controversial Religion
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
7 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
11 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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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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How to Read Film Like a Language
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
2 months ago
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
Open Culture
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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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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What Is Philippians About?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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A Brief History of Chile
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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The First Greek Philosopher
Beyond Mythology
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The Essential Greeks
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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African History...
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.
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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5 Contemporary Artists Inspired by Baroque
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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10 Must-Visit Museums in Massachusetts
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
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Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
4 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
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