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WHEN THE RIOT IS PERSONAL: SLY STONE, RELENTLESS AARON, AND THE COST OF GENIUSby Relentless Aaron Sly Stone is gone.And I’m not just mourning the man.I’m mourning the mirror he held up to me.We both built bangers—him with beats, me with books.We both broke rules—musically, artistically, spiritually.And we both, at one point, had nothing but…
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The Dylatov Pass Incident: Has One of the Biggest Soviet Mys…
[ad_1] Most of us would go out of our way not to set foot anywhere near a place the local natives refer to as “Dead Mountain.” That didn’t stop the Dyatlov Hiking Group, who set out on a sixteen-day skiing expedition across the northern Urals in late January of 1959. Experienced and intrepid, those ten…
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The remarkable all-female flying team that helped defeat the…
[ad_1] Andrei Linde (Credit: Andrei Linde) A new episode of the BBC’s History’s Secret Heroes podcast focuses on the Night Witches, a group of Russian female pilots who bombed German forces under the cover of darkness. World War Two is filled with so many extraordinary tales of heroism that not all of them have got…
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Rare Photos & Manuscripts from India, and across Asia
[ad_1] The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (RAS), founded in 1823, has long served as a hub for scholarly exchange and public engagement with the histories and cultures of Asia. Today, it continues as a learned society with members worldwide, engaging a global audience passionate about Asian studies. The RAS library holds…
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Raw Fury Shows Off New Tower-Survivor And Hack-And-Slash Tit…
[ad_1] At the MIX Summer Game Showcase, Swedish indie publisher Raw Fury announced their ‘tower-survivor’ game Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road and RPG hack-and-slash adventure Regions of Ruin: Runegate. In addition, Raw Fury unveiled a new gameplay trailer for their upcoming resource-management strategy game Craftlings and a new introductory trailer for the TTRPG-turned-CRPG Esoteric Ebb. Furthermore, as part of June’s…
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Scariest New Horror Books To Read
[ad_1] Follow us on Social Media Last Updated on March 14, 2025 by Jella Erhard Explore the best new horror books for adults and teens. Read the most anticipated horror novels, upcoming fantasy horror books, and modern sci-fi horror books. PIN ME for later Creepiest New Horror Books For Adults & Teens *Disclaimer: Some…
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Harvard Lets You Take 133 Free Online Courses: Explore Cours…
[ad_1] Image by Rizka, via Wikimedia Commons In South Korea, where I live, there may be no brand as respected as Habodeu. Children dream of it; adults seemingly do anything to play up their own connections to it, however tenuous those connections may be. But what is Habodeu? An electronics company? A line of clothing?…
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In Netflix’s Black Doves, An Assassin’s Code of Conduct Reve…
[ad_1] Note: This article contains potential spoilers for Black Doves. As anti-hero characters such as Deadpool, John Wick, and Jack Sparrow have become increasingly popular in comic books, films, and TV series in recent decades, they’ve introduced a sort of no-holds-barred protagonist. Beholden to no one or nothing except their own desires, these individuals are…
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How And Just Like That… gave us one of TV’s most bizarre f…
[ad_1] Getty Images From Sex and the City to its sequel, heroine Carrie Bradshaw has always pushed the boat out with her fashion. But her latest choice of headwear has shocked viewers like never before. There was other news unfolding around the world on 20 May, 2024, but in one corner of the internet, there…
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Indian Ayahs in British Imperial Visual Art: Race, Class and…
[ad_1] “Despite the visual veneration of the Ayah and romanticization of the ayah-child bond, the images, as this essay shows, served as tools of empire. The sentimental images of ayahs ultimately upheld British colonial hierarchies and naturalized the care-labor of brown women for white families.“ Female domestic labor has remained largely invisible in British Empire history, throughout…