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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
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This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Res Obscura
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
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a year ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
Trying to Understand...
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Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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9 months ago
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TheCollector
Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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Flashbak
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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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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The Nature of Love
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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A Week Off And A New Language
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a year ago
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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JamesHoare
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Classical Wisdom
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Nothing connects.
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Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
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over a year ago
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TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Classical Wisdom
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
12 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
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Classical Wisdom
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
4 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
9 months ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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TheCollector
5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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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
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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TheCollector
Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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TheCollector
Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
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TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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TheCollector
Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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TheCollector
Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
6 days ago
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
TheCollector
9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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TheCollector
How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
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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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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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