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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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Should We Be More Naked?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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When Africa discovered Europe
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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To all the newspapers I loved
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World Monuments Fund Lists Moon as Endangered Heritage Site
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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A Kodachrome Trip To Lord Howe Island in 1961
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped...
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Bringing It All Back Home
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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The Year's Midnight.
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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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.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Flashbak
Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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What Is Solipsism?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Dry Toilet Installation
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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A Brief History of Aboriginal Australia: The World’s Oldest Culture
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Classical Wisdom
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Overcoming Bias
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Events Schedule
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Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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A history of the monastic high life
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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People, States and Borders.
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Global Inequality...
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Wars and ideology simplified
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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5 Ukrainian Virtual Museums to Visit From the Comfort of Your Home
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Capitalism Thrives on Death—Death to Capitalism : Two Posters
Ahead of Halloween, on the heels of several months of forest fires, hurricanes, and heat waves, we...
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Ahead of Halloween, on the heels of several months of forest fires, hurricanes, and heat waves, we present two posters—”Capitalism Is the Dance of Death” and “Capitalism Thrives on Death.” Learn how to make wheatpaste and cover the walls of your community in these!
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Are Supernatural Beliefs Real?
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Discover This Historic Massachusetts Town Just Beyond Boston’s Reach
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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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...
Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2)...
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This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There’s actually a fair bit to say about both of them, so we’re going to split this treatment over two weeks,...
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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Why Do Famous Artists Recreate Old Works of Art?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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How to use generative AI for historical research
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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What Was the Political Significance of the Comintern?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
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But some things are more connected than others.
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
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Oekaki, optimized and...
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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What Were Hobart’s Funnies?
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
8 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Twitter's White Terror era
The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
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The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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