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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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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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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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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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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Moon Base (1959)
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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The Newer World Order.
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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