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• Breast
  ...one breast to become better warriors. The legend was a popular motif in [[art]] during [[Greek]] and [[Roman]] antiquity and served as an antithetical ca
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstructivism deconstructivism]), music, art, and art critics. Derrida was said to "leave behind a legacy of himself as the 'orig On multiple occasions, Derrida referred to himself as a historian. Derrida questioned assumptions of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weste
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• Art History
  ...t%20history Art History]". WordNet Search - 3.0, princeton.edu Moreover, ''art history'' generally is the [[research]] of [[artist]]s and their cultural a ...art theory frequently have been the pivots upon which the understanding of art history has turned.
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• Anti-intellectualism
  ...ssed]] as the derision of [[education]], [[philosophy]], [[literature]], [[art]], and [[science]], as impractical and contemptible. Alternatively, self-de Similar [[arguments]] have been made by others. Historian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Johnson Paul Johnson] argued that a clo
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• History
  ...6. In the 20th century the study of history was revolutionized by French [[historian]] [[Fernand Braudel]], by considering the effects of such outside discipli ..., [[worldview]], use of [[evidence]], or method of presentation of other [[historian]]s.
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• Oral history
  ...larized the term oral history. In 1948 Alan Nevins, a Columbia University historian, established the Columbia Oral History Research Office, with a mission of r * Ronald J. Grele, et al. ''Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History'' Praeger Publishers, 1991 [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?
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• Anonymous
  ...stitut in Frankfurt— was identified as Robert Campin. The 20th-century art historian Bernard Berenson [[method]]ically identified numerous early Renaissance Flo
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• Euthanasia
  ...ent debates and activism in North America and Europe. According to medical historian Ezekiel Emanuel, it was the availability of anesthesia that ushered in the In an article in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Brown University historian Jacob M. Appel documented extensive political debate over legislation to le
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• Alchemy
  ...mbryonic science. Indeed, like the early chemist, the practitioner of "the Art" made use of a laboratory and of certain specific instruments; more importa ...an mysticism, and Qabbalah. In brief, all alchemists have proclaimed their art to be an esoteric technique pursuing a goal similar or comparable to that o
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• Totalitarianism
  ...lly all aspects of the social life including [[economy]], [[education]], [[art]], [[science]], [[private]] life and [[moral]]s of [[citizens]]. "The offic ...the Western World'' (published as a book in 1946), the pro-Soviet British historian E. H. Carr claimed that "The trend away from [[individualism]] and towards
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• Atlantis
  ...is work, a commentary on Plato's ''Timaeus'', is lost, but another ancient historian, [[Proclus]], reports that Crantor traveled to Egypt and actually found col ...ion: writing only a few decades after the ''Timaeus'' and ''Critias'', the historian [[Theopompus]] of [[Chios]] wrote of a land beyond the ocean known as [[Mer
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• Integral
  :''See main article [[Integral art]]'' ...tists may have been influenced by integral thinkers, or developed integral art independently.
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• Intellectual History
  ...Mines of Gems”, a world history. [[Ibn Khaldūn]] was a famous Arab Muslim historian, historiographer, demographer, economist, philosopher and sociologist born ...gists, political scientists and cultural theorists. However the associated art, cinema and poetry remained to be developed.
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• Integral Movement
  [[Richard Tarnas]] (b. 1950), is a [[cultural historian]] and professor of [[philosophy]] and [[psychology]] at the [[California In ...tists may have been influenced by integral thinkers, or developed integral art independently.
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 22
  ...heir present than by attracting them to where time flows away? This is the historian's role. He organises the past, by breaking it up according to the official ...heir present than by attracting them to where time flows away? This is the historian's role. He organises the past, by breaking it up according to the official
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• Magic
  ...minine, in μαγική τέχνη (''magike techne'', Latin ''ars magica'') "magical art." ...owley]] preferred the spelling ''magick'', defining it as "the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the will." By this, he inclu
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• Buddha
  ...[Childbirth|birth]] and [[death]] are uncertain: most early 20th century [[historian]]s date his lifetime from ''circa' 563 BCE to 483 BCE; more recently, howev ...an form until around the [[1st century AD|1st century CE]] (see [[Buddhist art]]), the physical characteristics of fully-enlightened Buddhas are described
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• Civilization
  ...ions have even more intricate cultures, including literature, professional art, architecture, organized religion, and complex customs associated with the ...al and healthy constitution. Everything else, whether technology, science, art, music, etc., is by this definition considered as ''commentary''. Indeed, t
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• Books/Secondary Corpus
  ...with puzzlement. "Maor explores the idea of infinity in mathematics and in art and argues that this is the point of contact between the two, best exemplif A Study of History is the 12-volume magnum opus of British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, finished in 1961. In this immensely detailed and complex
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• Tommy
  ...ough ''Tommy'' is conventionally described as a rock opera, author and Who historian [[Richard Barnes]] points out that this definition is not strictly correct, ...ll three of the outer panels of the triptych are spanned by a single [[Pop Art]] painting by [[Mike McInnerney]]. The drawing is a sphere with diamond-sha
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