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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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When Was D-Day?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
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https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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The Many Roads to Rome
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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