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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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Dreams of Space -...
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a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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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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