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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Moon Trip (1958)
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Who Was George Eliot?
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
yesterday
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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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...
7 months ago
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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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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A Collection of...
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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...
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
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10 months ago
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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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
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3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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a year ago
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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The Immortals
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...and the feared Persian Army
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
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It's about having small expectations.
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
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a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
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 Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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