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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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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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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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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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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Building Reading Skills (1951)
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Looking Into Science (1965)
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Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Summary Of Changes
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Why did clothing become boring?
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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Start to Infinity (1978)
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A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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government in central Africa.
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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That's a good question.
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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