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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
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A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the...
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Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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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...
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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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...
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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 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
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But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
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An Epic Start to the New Year
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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To be young, perchance to dream
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A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
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Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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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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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
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.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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