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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Blast Off (1973)
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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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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
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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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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Space Witch (1959)
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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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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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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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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
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“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
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