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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Dreams of Space -...
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This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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3 months ago
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
a year ago
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
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TheCollector
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a year ago
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
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Who Was Averroes?
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
Hundred Rabbits
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...
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Unlike For Like.
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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5 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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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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a year ago
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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over a year ago
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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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 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
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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.
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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A Collection of...
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Dreams of Space -...
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a year ago
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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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Dreams of Space -...
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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A Collection of...
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Summary of changes for May 2024
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Death of the King of Siam
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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