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One, Two (1965)
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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Flashbak
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...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
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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Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
2 weeks ago
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
Flashbak
See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
5 months ago
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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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...
a year ago
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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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Does Marcus Matter?
11 months ago
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
Classical Wisdom
James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
a year ago
History Today Feed
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
7 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
a year ago
...and the feared Persian Army
History Today Feed
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
7 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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