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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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The Philippine-American War: The US’s First “Vietnam”
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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The Life of Plato
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
6 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Aristotle's Politics
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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Early Bird is Ending
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Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Classical Wisdom
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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