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when in spain don’t show your brain
Alfonso, the Learned of Castille as he was called. He was the Renaissance Man of the Middle Ages who marshalled the talents of Christians, Jews and Muslims in an incredible outpouring of scholarship and art… If intellectual achievement counted in … Continue reading
bungalo ferdinand
Hunting is back in the news and the entire issue of conservation tends to devolve into black and white, yet its contentious and complex, its profane and sacred elements well beyond the standard sound bite and immediate flash of rage … Continue reading
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Tagged Catch and release fishing, Christopher Columbus, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. hunting, Eric Trump hunting, Hunting Legends website, Jeff Rann, King Ferdinand of Spain, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, PETA animal rights, Rann Safaris, Theodor Adorno, World Wildlife Fund WWF
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MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED
The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alhadeff, Bill Casselman, Christopher Columbus, Dali, Eugene Delacroix, Father Labat, Gericault, Hannibal Lecter, Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Lenin, Marco Polo, Marquis de Sade, Maurice Sendak, Michel de Montaigne, Michelangelo, Montaigne, Nicolas Poussin, Osamu Fukutani, Othello and Desdemona, Restoration France, Robinson Crusoe, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Hobbes, Tim White Cannibalism, Voltaire, William Dafoe, William Shakespeare
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MR. TAMBOURINE MEN & THE WAR DANCE
The idea of American Manifest Destiny is not exclusive to the mid-eighteenth century, though the period of imperial “Westward Ho!” is one of the more conspicuous symptoms of that deeper, existential malady—the messianic mission to make the world over in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, Adam Smith, Albert Bierstadt, American Indian Wars, American Revolution, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ben Franklin, Bernard Jolibert, Bernard Picart, Christopher Columbus, Conrad Black, Dan Brown, Dan Brown The Lost Symbol, David Williams, Eanger Irving Couse, Edgar Samuel Paxson, Emanuel Leutze, Frederic Remington, French and Indian Wars, George Washington, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Herman Atkins MacNeil, Howard Terpning, Jeff Nall, John Graves Simcoe, John Locke, John Trudell, Keith S. Thomson, Lewis and Clark Expedition, madame Vernet, Marquis de Chastellux, Marquis de Condorcet, Michael T. Lubragge, Randy Newman, Robert Redford, Theodor de Bry, Will Wilkinson, www.willwilkinson.net
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HUCKSTERS & HYPERBOLE
To Europeans intellectuals of the eighteenth century, America was a battleground of ideas; the war between Nature and civilization.And its proponents did not mince words. Respected academics like Comte de Buffon reported that domesticated animals imported from Europe as well … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, Albert Gallatin, Aztecs, Christopher Columbus, Comte de Buffon, Crevecoeur, Diderot, E. Adamson Hoebel, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Incas, John Trudell, John White Art, Lord Fitzgerald, Paul Kane, Rationalism and Romanticism, Voltaire, Voltaire Candide, william R. Leigh
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FROM WITHOUT AND WITHIN
The Western world is an ancient system that repeatedly fails to reform itself. That place where the human quality will be experienced as simply as it should be is probably the African continent itself. What cannot be avoided, is for … Continue reading
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