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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
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An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Summary of changes for September
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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North Pacific Logbook
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Trying to Understand...
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
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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.
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Does Free Will Exist?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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