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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Immigration and crime: Denmark
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
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 Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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American polarisation
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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What Was Jim Crow?
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Overcoming Bias
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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What Is Capoeira?
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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