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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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The Great Experience (1963)
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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Why drug history?
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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The Tears of Strangers are only water
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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projects and pain
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We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
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Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Stoicism and Stress
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Another Of My Essays in French
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And some bits and pieces.
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Monsters and Myths
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Overcoming Bias
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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The Performance is Over
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Even if the artists don't realise it.
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Should We Navel Gaze?
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Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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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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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Battle of the Historians
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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