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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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History Today Feed
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
TheCollector
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Classical Wisdom
Hades
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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a year ago
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
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10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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a year ago
African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
a week ago
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
TheCollector
International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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5 months ago
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 Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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2 months ago
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
a month ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
TheCollector
Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Last Chance
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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The First Biographers
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a year ago
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Plato Vs Aristotle
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
3 weeks ago
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
a year ago
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
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 Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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