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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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