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Summary Of Changes
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
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African History...
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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TheCollector
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
TheCollector
Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Flashbak
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...
3 weeks ago
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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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
7 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
TheCollector
What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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TheCollector
What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
4 days ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
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.)...
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
2 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
TheCollector
4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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TheCollector
Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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TheCollector
Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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11 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Classical Wisdom
Important Notification
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New Cabins *NOW* Available
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
a month ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
TheCollector
10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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What Was Jim Crow?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
8 months ago
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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