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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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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 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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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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Beware Policy Abstraction
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
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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...
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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I See The Earth! (1968)
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Beware the Lides of March
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
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Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
A Collection of...
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
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They didn't know. But they know now.
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Early Christian Poetry
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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