Best Amsterdam Museum Podcasts (2024)

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Art of Europe: Gothic Church Art — Rick Steves Art Bite 6:51

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The artistic works and relics that filled the churches of the Middle Ages carried messages that packed a religious, political, and emotional punch. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Özge Çelikaslan, "Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma" (DPR Barcelona, 2024) 39:43

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“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its possible reappearance—feared by some, desired by others,” writes Thomas Keenan. Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma (DPR Barcelona, June 2024) is about those stories and much mor…

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Art of Europe: Ancient Roman Architecture — Rick Steves Art Bite 3:02

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Ancient Rome's imposing structures were marked by their practical design, nods to Greek style, and colossal scale, while its grand statues stood tall. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Art of Europe: Ancient Roman Mosaics — Rick Steves Art Bite 2:43

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Exquisite, realistic mosaics adorned ancient Roman homes, along with colorful frescoes that give a peek into domestic life in the great civilization. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Art of Europe: Ancient Greek Temples — Rick Steves Art Bite 5:25

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Athens' Parthenon, with its clever design aspects and organic beauty, is among the temples that trumpet the sophistication of the ancient Greek world. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Art of Europe: Prehistoric Art 3:53

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Europe's love affair with art reaches back to its prehistoric societies, and the artifacts they left behind give us a glimpse into their way of life. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Laura Helton, "Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History" (Columbia UP, 2024) 55:31

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During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history, these bibliophiles, scrapbookers, and librarians created an enduring set of African diasporic arc…

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Rubina Raja, "Shaping Archaeological Archives: Dialogues Between Fieldwork, Museum Collections, and Private Archives" (Brepols, 2023) 38:54

2M ago38:54

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Archaeology as a discipline has undergone significant changes over the past decades, in particular concerning best practices for how to handle the vast quantities of data that the discipline generates. As Shaping Archaeological Archives: Dialogues between Fieldwork, Museum Collections, and Private Archives (Brepols, 2023) uncovers, much of this dat…

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Churches of Austria — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 7:57

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In the ornate, dramatic churches of Austria, elements of art, architecture, and music work in harmony — with a style bold enough to reach the heavens. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Châteaux of France — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 8:49

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Hunting hounds, manicured grounds, and a mini theme park celebrating the genius of Da Vinci are a few of the amenities at France's grand residences. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Purgatorium by Marco Aurelio╚═ live @Amsterdams Most Wanted ═╗03-05-2024 1:12:21

2M ago1:12:21

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As per today giving a sign of life haha.👀😜My inner circle gave me a verbal whoop upside my head the last few days. Thankful for that.🎩I acknowledged the fact that I will never be an Instagram tiger by posting content on a regular basis as I’m an introvert.Let’s emphasize that social media and frequent posting is not one of my best characteristics. …

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Sarah A. Bendall, "Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2021) 51:31

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In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and farthingales, existed in various extremes in Western Europe and beyond, in the form of stays, corsets, hoop petticoats and crinolines, right up until the twentieth century. With a nuanc…

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Ariella Aisha Azoulay, "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" (Verso, 2019) 52:17

3M ago52:17

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Ariella Aisha Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while trying to d…

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Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth, "Geopolitics of Digital Heritage" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 56:30

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How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the BA (Hons) Arts Management at the University of the Arts Singapore and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Dr Elizabeth Stainforth, a lecturer in the School of Fine Art,…

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Danielle Taschereau Mamers, "Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art" (Fordham UP, 2023) 48:29

3M ago48:29

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How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused? Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art (Fordham University Press, …

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Museums of Rome — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 11:14

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The museums of Rome house the treasures of one of the world's great civilizations, from anonymous scenes of everyday life to breathtaking masterworks. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Purgatorium by Marco Aurelio╚═ live @Amsterdams Most Wanted ═╗19-04-2024 57:20

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It's been a while since I've uploaded a personal set, and I'm content to be back with new material.This set was played live on Friday 19-04-2024 at Amsterdam's Most Wanted Radio during my show Purgatorium.Fasten your seatbelts as our cruise will be a one hour ride.Get ready for hypnotism and tribalish attacks that you will feel in your guts.Trackli…

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Rose Miron, "Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory" (U Minnesota Press, 2024) 44:18

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The past several decades have seen a massive shift in debates over who owns and has the right to tell Native American history and stories. For centuries, non-Native actors have collected, stolen, sequestered, and gained value from Native stories and documents, human remains, and sacred objects. However, thanks to the work of Native activists, Nativ…

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Grazia Ingravalle, "Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital" (Amsterdam UP, 2024) 1:10:39

3M ago1:10:39

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Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital (Amsterdam UP, 2023) is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three institutions at the forefront of experimentation with film exh…

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Eating Seafood in Europe — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 4:01

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From Cornwall to the Adriatic, diners have an appetite for meals starring locally caught fish and shellfish — some humble, some chic, all delicious. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Museums of Amsterdam — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 9:52

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Delight in the mastery of titans Rembrandt and Van Gogh, and ponder the resilience of Anne Frank and her compatriots who lived under Nazi occupation. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Heather Akou, "On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 1:01:17

4M ago1:01:17

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Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms (Bloomsbury, 2024) by Dr. Heather Akou explores the changing styles, business practices, and lived experiences of the people who make, sell, and wear service-industry uniforms in the …

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Churches of Germany — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 5:18

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The Reformation ushered a new Protestant ambiance into Germany’s places of worship — one conveying strength, humanism, and a more natural spirit. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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AMW invites Niall Kelly ╚═ live @Amsterdams Most Wanted ═╗24-02-2024 52:55

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Niall is a 22 year old Irish based artist specialising in Hardgroove, Hypnotic & Tribal techno. He has a passion for all forms of electronic music, but his true sound is heavily influenced by the late 90s & early 2000s era of loop-driven techno, however, it’s no surprise to hear a variety of genres from both the new and the old era's in Niall’s hig…

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Mpho Ngoepe and Sindiso Bhebhe, "Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts: Recalling the Pasts" (Routledge, 2024) 46:25

5M ago46:25

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Mpho Ngoepe and Sindiso Bhebhe's Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts: Recalling the Pasts (Routledge, 2024) revisits the definition of a record and extends it to include memory, murals, rock art paintings and other objects. Drawing on five years of research and examples from Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa, Mpho Ngoepe and Sindiso Bheb…

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Ancient Sites of France — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 11:26

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Sophisticated cave paintings and Roman engineering achievements in today’s France reveal ancient standards of living that went beyond mere survival. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Pablo Alonso González, "Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation" (UP of Florida, 2018) 51:05

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Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation (UP of Florida, 2018) explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in the construction of a national identity in postcolonial Cuba. Starting with independence from Spain in 1898 and moving through Cuban-American rapprochement in 2014, Pablo Alonso González illustrates h…

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Museums of Germany — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 11:35

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From the world’s oldest globe to reminders both mundane and dark of postwar Communism, Germany has preserved its rich and sometimes turbulent history. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Purgatorium by Inez Akker ╚═ live @Amsterdams Most Wanted ═╗02-02-2024 1:13:00

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Inez Akker is a Spanish DJ & Producer based in the Netherlands with an extraordinarily profound connection with Techno and the rave culture. Her mixes and productions are noticed by her taste for powerful driving tunes – an elegant mixture of raw & hypnotic elements layered on top of her signature banging beat.She is part of the Amsterdam-based col…

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Purgatorium by James Vallon ╚═ live @Amsterdams Most Wanted ═╗12-01-2024 59:02

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DJ James Vallon, from the vibrant North Holland, started his journey through the music world in the vibrant house music scene. Over time, his musical preference has evolved into a refined passion for the powerful sounds of hard-groove. Driven by a love for underground vibes and the urge to connect people on the dance floor, James creates a unique a…

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Churches of Spain — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 12:53

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Spain's great houses of worship showcase magnificent art and architecture in an array of styles, from Moorish majesty to the singular Sagrada Família. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Ancient Sites of Great Britain — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 6:37

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These man-made marvels have stood as part of Britain’s geographic – and spiritual – landscape for thousands of years, their quiet allure undiminished. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Purgatorium by BVV ╚═ live @Amsterdams Most Wanted ═╗12-01-2024 [viny only] 1:02:16

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BVV is not just another white male techno DJ. Or is he? From a young age, he played various instruments, like drums and guitar. He started DJing 5 years ago but decided to play vinyl only about 2 years ago. His sounds are influenced by both classics and minimal, bringing a steady pace to the sound system.Get ready for a vinyl-only techno belter wit…

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Robert R. Janes, "Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat" (Routledge, 2023) 57:54

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Who do you turn to at the brink of the apocalypse? What might help us to mitigate the financial, commercial, political, social, and cultural collapse for which we may be heading? Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat (Routledge, 2023) proposes an unlikely hero in this narrative. Robert Janes’ text explores the implications of societ…

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Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019) 50:08

7M ago50:08

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In her new book Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Cornell University Press, 2019) Jelena Subotić asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled―ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated―throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of acce…

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Douglas Hunter, "Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018) 1:10:40

7M ago1:10:40

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In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings of when and where …

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Palaces of Italy — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 10:13

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The rise of humanism — and of art for art's sake — is on full display in the grand palaces of Florence and Venice, monuments to the rich and powerful. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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David R. Brigham, "Two Hundred Years: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1824-2024" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) 52:04

7M ago52:04

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Home to the first two drafts of the U.S. Constitution, an original printer’s proof of the Declaration of Independence, and the earliest surviving American photograph, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) is one of the nation’s largest libraries. Published in conjunction with the anniversary of the Society’s founding in 1824, Two Hundred Yea…

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Yael A. Sternhell, "War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War" (Yale UP, 2023) 55:10

7M ago55:10

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Yael A. Sternhell's War on Record: The Archive and the Aftermath of the Civil War (Yale University Press, 2023) is a history of the United States' greatest archival project and how it has shaped what we know about the Civil War. The Civil War generated a vast archive of official records--documents that would shape the postwar era and determine what…

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Purgatorium by Marco Aurelio╚═ live @Amsterdams Most Wanted ═╗22-12-2023 1:53:07

7M ago1:53:07

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The last Purgatorium live set of 2023, exclusively broadcasted on Amsterdam's Most Wanted Radio.Get ready for a two-hour bender pushing the boundaries between proper enslaving music for the mind and straight-out incendiary floor dynamics bound to wreak havoc down the basement!To all my listeners and followers I appreciate you, see you in 2024!Track…

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Saving the Brontë Birthplace 30:38

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Where were the Brontë sisters actually born? If this was a quiz question, most people would give the wrong answer. Even standard books on the Brontë family often gloss over the fact that Charlotte, Emily and Anne – along with their wayward brother Branwell – were all born between 1815 and 1820 in Thornton, a village on the edge of Bradford, and not…

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Simone Gigliotti, "Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced" (Indiana UP, 2023) 49:50

8M ago49:50

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The global refugee, the ship passenger, the displaced person. How did their homeseeking routes and visual motifs intersect and diverge in the early Holocaust film archive? Simone Gigliotti's Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced tracks the footsteps and routes of predominantly Jewish refugees and postwar displaced persons …

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Abigail Bainbridge, "Conservation of Books" (Routledge, 2023) 32:10

8M ago32:10

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Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipated reference work on global book structures and their conservation. Offering the first modern, comprehensive overview on this subject, this volume takes an international approach. Written by over 70 spe…

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Castles of Scotland — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 7:11

8M ago7:11

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Imposing strongholds across the rugged Scottish landscape housed royalty and defended against many sieges throughout a turbulent history with England. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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Matthew Dennis, "American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023) 54:47

8M ago54:47

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The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier's bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after the 9/11 attacks. The bullet-riddled door of the Pulse nightclub. Volatile and shape-shifting, relics have long played a role in memorializing the American past, acting as physical reminders of hard-wo…

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Raquel Ukeles et al., "101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel" (Scala Arts, 2022) 39:49

8M ago39:49

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101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel (Scala Arts, 2022) provides a thematic journey through the rich and diverse collections of the National Library of Israel and the Jewish people worldwide. Selected by the Library's curators and collections experts, this fine-art volume presents 101 of the most precious items in the Library's collect…

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Purgatorium by Marco Aurelio╚═ live @Amsterdams Most Wanted ═╗01-12-2023 58:15

8M ago58:15

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One of the last sessions of 2023 everyone.Buckle up, spontaneous, feeling free, signature sound.We always create, and we are consciously aware of the whole narrative things as it is and as always will be, it's about keeping it real in all circumstances.Creating is a thing at birth and unexplainable as it is second nature. Most important we go with …

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Ceri Houlbrook,"‘Ritual Litter' Redressed" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 43:06

8M ago43:06

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Ritual deposition is not an activity that many people in the Western world would consider themselves participants of. The enigmatic beliefs and magical thinking that led to the deposition of swords in watery places and votive statuettes in temples, for example, may feel irrelevant to the modern day. However, Dr. Ceri Houlbrook shows in ‘Ritual Litt…

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Gabriella Giannachi, "Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday" (MIT Press, 2016) 46:59

8M ago46:59

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In Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday (MIT Press, 2016; paperback edition, 2023), Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive into the apparatus through which we map the everyday. The archive, traditionally a body of documents or a site for the preservation of documents, changed over the centuries to encompass, often concurrently,…

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Castles of England — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide 7:30

9M ago7:30

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England is dotted with impressive medieval fortifications — many built on the site of Norman or Roman bastions — that stayed in use for centuries. For European travel information, visit https://www.ricksteves.com.By Rick Steves

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