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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Dreams of Space -...
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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What Was the First Written Language?
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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Gaius Marius
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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The World's First Computer
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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