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a 19th-century Manuscript Reflects Indigenous and Colonial A…
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #6: The Elephant in the Bodleian: a 19th-century Manuscript Reflects Indigenous and Colonial Approaches to Knowledge In George Orwell’s essay Shooting an Elephant (1936), the narrator, a colonial police officer in Burma, describes the chaos caused by a tame elephant that has gone “must,” its mahout…
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Harvest Fall Festival Expansion Increases the Fun
[ad_1] Seasons might be all over the place these days but Harvest: Fall Festival!, the first expansion to Keymaster Games’ Harvest is a satisfying addition to what was already one of the most enjoyable games I have. Successfully Kickstarted last year, Fall Festival adds two new characters, one new location, and more ways to score,…
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What Makes Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Perhaps the M…
[ad_1] Practically anyone could take one glance at Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and identify it as a Picasso, even if they’ve never seen it before and couldn’t say anything else about it. That alone goes some way to explaining why the painting would end up ranked as the most important artwork of the twentieth century, at least…
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Returning to the Upside Down: A CAPC Stranger Things Retrosp…
[ad_1] With its blend of nerdy references (e.g., Dungeons & Dragons), government conspiracies (e.g., MKUltra), the filmmaking of Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter, and good old ’80s nostalgia, Stranger Things has been one of Netflix’s most popular and beloved titles ever since its premier on July 15, 2016. As our own Jason Morehead wrote on…
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How the Cabbage Patch Kids caused a near-riot in the 1980s
[ad_1] The Little People concept had quickly attracted wider attention well beyond rural Georgia. Babyland even got a mention in the UK’s Daily Express as early as 1980, albeit as “the kind of lunatic scheme that appeals to Americans”. Still, as cynics might say, there’s one born every minute, and the concept’s blockbuster commercial potential…
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Decoding the Visual Identity and Design of Young India Recor…
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #7: Decoding the Visual Identity and Design of Young India Record Label Record collectors, like archaeologists love to dig! And just as archaeological finds reveal the context of a civilisation, album art offers visual clues to what a record sounds like. While album artworks reflected their music…
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Daggerheart: Hope And Fear Launches For Preorder With New Cl…
[ad_1] Today, Darringtpn Press, the publishing arm of Critical Role, announced the first expansion to the Daggerheart TTRPG. Daggerheart: Hope & Fear is the debut expansion to the Daggerheart Core Set and nearly doubles the game’s worldbuilding and character-creation toolkit, offering players and GMs new options for creating adventures. Featuring new character classes—including the Witch, Warlock,…
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Why Movies Don’t Feel Real Anymore: A Close Look at Changing…
[ad_1] Anyone who keeps an eye on Hollywood knows — indeed, has been ever more frequently and anxiously informed — that the theater business is in trouble. If fewer of us than ever have been going out to the movies, one reason must have to do with the easy availability of home streaming, to say…
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Why this mysterious Klimt painting sold for $236m
[ad_1] Hidden for decades from public view, the artist’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has now sold at auction for a record sum. Why is it so valuable? A mysterious and relatively little-known painting by Gustav Klimt is now the most expensive work of modern art ever to sell at auction and the most expensive ever…
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With The Age Of Revelation Thankfully Over, The X-Men Face T…
[ad_1] The X-Men are currently bearing witness to one of the most tortured and unwated Marvel futures imaginable in Age of Revelation. When we’re all freed from this event, Cyclops will return to the present armed with knowledge to alter mutantkind’s fate forever, ushering in the “Shadows of Tomorrow”, the next era of X-Men storytelling (that will…