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Mesopotamian Religion: Prelude to Axial Age

Between 800 and 200 BCE, a remarkable series of sages, mystics, and thinkers gave rise to the transcendental traditions that are known today as “world religions.” In 1949, the... Read more

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The Story Of The Most Misused Social Security Number Of All Time

The most misused Social Security Number of all time was 078-05-1120. In 1938, a wallet manufacturer decided to promote its product by showing how a Social Security card would fit... Read more

LATEST ARTICLES BY PAPERBLOGGERS

The Curse Of The Crying Boy Painting

On September 4, 1985, the British tabloid newspaper The Sun reported that a firefighter from Yorkshire was claiming that undamaged copies of a painting of a... Read more

The 29 August 2011 by Gerard
Mesopotamian Religion: Prelude to Axial Age

Between 800 and 200 BCE, a remarkable series of sages, mystics, and thinkers gave rise to the transcendental traditions that are known today as “world... Read more

The 31 August 2011 by Cris
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Chinese Religion Redux

As Cold War propaganda in the West would have it, communist states were to be despised because they were atheist and Godless. The reality, however, was quite... Read more

The 23 August 2011 by Cris
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World War II Soviet Tass Posters at Chicago Art Institute - NYTimes.com

: "Jill Bugajski, an art historian and one of the curators of a show that opens on Sunday at the Art Institute of Chicago, “Windows on the War: Soviet TASS... Read more

The 17 August 2011 by Dotpattern
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GUEST BLOGGER: Gregory Michno on the Violent Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, 1862.

Taoyateduta, or Little Crow, leader of the Sioux uprising of 1862. In August 1862, hundreds of Dakota Sioux opened a murderous rampage against settlers and... Read more

The 08 August 2011 by Kena
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Soviet TASS Posters, 1941-1945 Art Institute of Chicago Exhibit Review | Splash...

Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945 Review – A Treasure Unearthed "The story told by the posters that make up the current... Read more

The 19 August 2011 by Dotpattern
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British Pathé Video And Film Archive

image credit Founded as Société Pathé Frères in Paris, France on 28 September 1896 by brothers Charles, Émile, Théophile and Jacques Pathé, during the first par... Read more

The 02 August 2011 by Gerard
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Printer's Devil, Minerva's Owl

No one is quite sure why an apprentice printer was called a printer's devil, although there are a number of theories. Perhaps the most popular is that of the... Read more

The 12 August 2011 by Carolineld
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The Oak Island Money Pit

image credit Oak Island is a 140-acre island in Lunenburg County on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Oak Island is noted as the location of the... Read more

The 26 August 2011 by Gerard
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Onward, German Christian Soldiers

The German Interior Minister was recently interviewed by Spiegel. It begins with a nice example of the “authenticity” error (i.e., my understanding of the... Read more

The 09 August 2011 by Cris
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