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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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Overcoming Bias
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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Dreams of Space -...
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over 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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Weekend Roundup
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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When The Music's Over ...
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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