Personality Cult Behind Cameo Jewelry
How can a cameo help to build a personality cult? How can you use this specific form of engraving to send a message about your divine powers or extraordinary strength? These three Roman emperors knew. They used this rare form of luxury art to make their message have a special look and feel. Divine. If you want to say you’re divine, your “message” needs to look divine. And unique.
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Pandora’s Box: How a Notorious Jar Became Divine?
Sickness, famine, war, death and other evils aren’t beautiful. That fact made the artist question the mystery of Pandora’s box.
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He Saw Fascism As a Fight of the Bourgeoisie, Intelligence Agencies Followed Him all the Time, Several Countries Expelled Him: The Political Journey of Lombardo Toledano
Lombardo Toledano was born in 1894, in Teziutlán, located in the mountains of Puebla. He died in Mexico City in 1968 following the massacre of the students in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco and the jubilant sports competition of the Olympic Games.
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Five Cold War Facts That Were Classified
Documents that were top secret reveal the facts unknown to the public until now.
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The Duel that Became the Cause of the Cold War
The whole era of the Cold War is marked by conflict on different levels, and one of these levels is ideology. The polarization after World War II brought opposite ideas onto the social and political spectrum.
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