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Jane Fonda Denounces FCC’s ABC Licensing Review Amid Kimmel Melania Joke
Jane Fonda, the actor and activist who is the founder of the modern Committee for the First Amendment, has sharply…
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How Mail Order Brought the Occult – The Public Domain Review
One of the best-known mail-order occult societies of the time, and one that still exists, was the Ancient Mystical Order…
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*The Fall of the House of Usher* (1928) – The Public Domain Review
It was the middle of the winter of 1926, in Rochester, New York, when James Sibley Watson Jr. and his…
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A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project — The Public Domain Review
I can imagine someone walking away thinking about all kinds of things: What have I learned about history by sifting…
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Review ‘Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord’: uneven but promising
Next month, the “Star Wars” franchise returns to theaters after an astonishing seven-year absence with Jon Favreau’s “The Mandalorian and…
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Season 2 review of ‘Your Friends & Neighbours’: drama sensations from Apple TV
The lifestyles of the rich and famous are discussed and depicted so often that it feels tasteless. These stories become…
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Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th Century Britain – The Public Domain Review
It is clear from the surviving testimonies of resurrection people that pauper cemeteries, without guards or mortuaries, were favorite hunting…
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Elizabeth I’s manuscript copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s *Histoires Prodigieuses* (1559) — The Public Domain Review
Beelzebub, Boaistuau claims, incarnated in two places on earth. First he ruled over the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where…
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The Glass Delusion and Its History – The Public Domain Review
Three centuries later, Foucault argued that Descartes had not only excluded the glass man from his rationality, but also employed…
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The 2026 Oscars review: tasteful and overly safe
In the best of all worlds, the Oscars are exciting: fun and exciting, moving and meaningful. At their very best,…
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