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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Searching In Science (1965)
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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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.
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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