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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
11 months ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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2 months ago
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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a year ago
Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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10 months ago
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
4 months ago
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
a year ago
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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8 months ago
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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6 months ago
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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7 months ago
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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8 months ago
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Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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a year ago
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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a month ago
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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11 months ago
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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10 months ago
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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8 months ago
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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6 months ago
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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4 months ago
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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a year ago
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
5 days ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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a year ago
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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2 months ago
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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a month ago
CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
a month ago
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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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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a year ago
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
a year ago
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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4 months ago
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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a year ago
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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8 months ago
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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6 months ago
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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9 months ago
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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2 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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5 months ago
Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
7 hours ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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7 months ago
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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9 months ago
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
7 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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a year ago
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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11 months ago
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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10 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
2 weeks ago
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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9 months ago
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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a year ago
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm...
9 months ago
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
5 months ago
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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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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a year ago
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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2 months ago
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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4 months ago
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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5 months ago
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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8 months ago
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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a year ago
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
a month ago
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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a year ago
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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6 months ago
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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a year ago
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
a year ago
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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a year ago
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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5 months ago
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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5 months ago
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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5 months ago
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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9 months ago
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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5 months ago
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