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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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The Past Is Another Country.
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
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An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Global Inequality...
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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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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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