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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
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Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
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Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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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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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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