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The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Out of This World (1953)
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Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
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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
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
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Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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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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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Winged Victory
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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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...
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
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Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
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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.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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