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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
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Clyne,...
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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 Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Ancient Anxiety
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African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Empress Theodora
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A History of the United States Senate
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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The Scottish Play
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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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...
11 months ago
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...
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
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Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Monsters and Myths
a year ago
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
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11 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
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Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
a year ago
From Anya, Joel and Frida
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
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The Birth of Ovid
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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A Brief History of Chile
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
11 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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Who Was Averroes?
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
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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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Weekend Roundup
Early Christianity
a year ago
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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