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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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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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Dr Alun Withey
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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The World's First Computer
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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For the Love of the Classics
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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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.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Hundred Rabbits
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In...
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In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
2 months ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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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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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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