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the promise of pancakes
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Should we pay attention to them?
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
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I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Overcoming Bias
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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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.
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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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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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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