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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Should Death Concern Us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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.
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
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over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
TheCollector
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Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Beware Policy Abstraction
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
Classical Wisdom
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
TheCollector
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Classical Wisdom
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Aristotle's Politics
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a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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Flashbak
Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
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TheCollector
Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Res Obscura
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
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a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
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For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
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I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Classical Wisdom
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The Nature of Love
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But can they get their heads round it?
TheCollector
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Origins of Latin Literature
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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African History...
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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The "New" Ancient City
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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