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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
TheCollector
Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Summary of changes for August 2023
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Quick Notification
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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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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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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How Should We Look at History?
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9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
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Please help us not to understand.
Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Early Christian Poetry
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8 months ago
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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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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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
9 months ago
“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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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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