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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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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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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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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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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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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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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Summary of changes for August
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Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Summary Of Changes
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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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...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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The world according to Garegnani
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
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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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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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The Great Experience (1963)
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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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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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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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....
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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.
TheCollector
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
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TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
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Please help us not to understand.
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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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.
TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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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...
a month ago
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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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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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
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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an African portrait of an African society
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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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...
a year ago
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...
Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
Flashbak
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 …...
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Global Inequality...
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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The First Stoic
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Wrong Side of...
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What Is the Didache?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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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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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
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On cartography as historical argument
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
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.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
TheCollector
Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
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...
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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