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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Working offgrid efficiently
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For the first 3 years we tested the...
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For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
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over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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10 months ago
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
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over a year ago
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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Arguing with the Dead
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Summary of changes for July 2024
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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a year ago
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Wrong Side of...
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Flashbak
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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
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History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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TheCollector
What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
6 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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