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US President or American Caesar?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Aristotle on Friendship
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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African History...
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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What Is an Antipope?
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
Classical Wisdom
Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
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And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Wrong Side of...
The Scottish Play
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The Year's Midnight.
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:13
TheCollector
Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
TheCollector
10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 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...
TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
a month ago
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
TheCollector
Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
a year ago
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
TheCollector
A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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TheCollector
Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
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Most of them are not from 2023
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
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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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
8 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
TheCollector
The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
TheCollector
Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Secret of the Stoics
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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a year ago
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
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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