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*The Mowing-Devil* (1678), or the earliest known depiction of a crop circle — The Public Domain Review
At the height of the crop circle craze in the 1980s and 1990s, all kinds of explanations, both natural and…
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Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Limits of Political Citizenship – The Public Domain Review
And yet the queue was instead a destabilizing challenge to a system built on interlocking binaries: tall versus short, female…
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*The Cheese Mites* (1903) – The Public Domain Review
The circular cutouts used The Cheese Mites and other trick films, which signal a perspective shift from our world to…
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Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Baptism of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) — The Public Domain Review
When Princess Elisabeth von Hessen-Kassel (1596–1625) was baptized in 1596, the festivities lasted four days. There were fireworks displays, knightly…
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*Manifesto Antropófago* by Oswald de Andrade (1928) — The Public Domain Review
Perhaps a more revealing aspect of the Manifesto was the claim that: “Before the Portuguese discovered Brazil, Brazil discovered happiness.”…
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The Early Modern Camera Obscura – The Public Domain Review
For Giambattista della Porta, polymath author of Natural magic (1558), a book on natural philosophy and alchemy full of magic…
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Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887) – The Public Domain Review
For Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900), born in Feodosia, Crimea, to Armenian parents and often remembered as one of the great marine…
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Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess – The Public Domain Review
Mary admits a surprising amount about her own deception. She claims not to lie about the big things. She is…
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The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel – The Public Domain Review
Book II tells of René’s travels to “places less treacherous and less dangerous” (Northern Italy, Austria and Upper Hungary). As…
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Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) – The Public Domain Review
Still, he admits it’s true that prominent men have prominent noses — everyone since Aristotle has reached agreement on this.…
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