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Apr 23, 20178 minKhatyn Massacre: One of The Worst Nazi Atrocities | Shantanu SinghShantanu Singh Posted in his capacity as one of many Nazi officers in erstwhile Belorussia of 1941, Wehrmacht Ober-Gefreite, or Lance...
Mar 22, 20175 minCheckmate: John Cage and Marcel Duchamp | Prerna AnilkumarPrerna Anilkumar Lowell Cross, an American student at the University of Toronto. John Cage, the famous experimental composer. One...
Feb 21, 20175 minHistory of Daguerreotype| Prerna AnilkumarPrerna Anilkumar January 7, 1839: Something happened on this day in the French Académie des Sciences that would forever change the...
Feb 6, 201715 minOn Sadomasochism|Prerna AnilkumarPrerna Anilkumar Sadomasochism is an eroticised exchange of dualities. Two words. Two worlds: Power and Pain. Bondage and Freedom....
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Jan 23, 20178 minHistory of Marginalia | Prerna AnilkumarPrerna Anilkumar Marginalia is a Latin word which comes from marginis (in the margins). There is something beautiful and erotic of being...
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