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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Dreams of Space -...
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Hey everyone!
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
Dreams of Space -...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
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Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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To all the newspapers I loved
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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TheCollector
William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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What’s the History of Gin?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Moon Base (1959)
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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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,...
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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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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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