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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
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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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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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