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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Blindspots and Biographies
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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weird medieval guys
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Sexy? Scary? Both?
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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What is Plagiarism?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
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And some bits and pieces.
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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Sappho
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Rules, Rules Rules
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Because that's all they can do.
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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A Book 100 Years in the Making
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Hades
The God of the Dead
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You And Whose Army?
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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Another of my essays in French.
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Their Enemies The Russians
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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The (history of) spice must flow
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Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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7 African Myths About Animals
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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