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Accidental Historian

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State champs

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Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” for The Beatles, Just Three Days After the Album’s Release (1967)

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G.K. Chesterton on the Dandelion and the Meaning of Life

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Sabri Sundos Faces Catastrophe With Flowers

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How Not to Waste Your Life

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Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their...

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How Jimothy the Raccoon Became a Hero of the Misfits

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SVA Grads Make Art out of History’s Rubble

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Vertical Panoramas of Churches

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I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying...

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What to Read & Listen to After Seeing The Odyssey

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Pittsburgh’s Pickleball Courts by Sharmistha Ray Are an Abstract Riot of Color

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The trailer for Behemoth! , a forthcoming film written...

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A Strange Continent

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Helen Levitt Captured the Poetry of New York City

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The Art Institute of Chicago to Cut Its Entire Custodial Staff

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The Art Institute of Chicago Cuts Its Entire Custodial Staff

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On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this...

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Hell and High Water

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“No CGI” Is Really Just Invisible CGI

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring s.e. smith

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The Rise of the Corporate Rave

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The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday . They’ve...

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Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World’s Largest Pop-Up Book

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New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy...

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The Bone Rush

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Idaho Pushed Anti-Trans Laws for Years. Then a Teen Died.

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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Is Free

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The people’s atheist

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The Having/Doing job gap

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Hear the Haunting Sound of an Ancient Celtic War Trumpet: Silent for 2,000 Years, It Now Sounds Again

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Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War

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The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day,...

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Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak

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A Homerist’s Review of “The Odyssey”

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Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes

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Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John...

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A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

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New Museum's Shiny New Building Leaks During Flash Floods

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Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Exiled to the US

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Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the...

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A Beastie Boy Returns to the Mic, With Some Help

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On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American...

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Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!”

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The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me

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Activists Sue to Stop Frida Kahlo Works From Leaving Mexico

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Presence, Memory, and Time Merge in the Surreal Works of ‘Architects of Absence’

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A Texan Risked Everything to Defend Ukraine. So Did His Father.

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Trump Whitewashes George Washington’s Slavery History in New Display

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