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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Early Christian Poetry
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Summary of changes for June 2023
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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In Praise of the Preterite
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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Another Of My Essays In French
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Their Enemies The Russians
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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