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Flashbak
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
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Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Should We Be Skeptics?
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Building Reading Skills (1951)
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Young Technician December, 1957
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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