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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Looking Into Science (1965)
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Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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I talked to Terry Gross!
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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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...
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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Unlike For Like.
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a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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African History...
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Global Inequality...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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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.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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African History...
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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What is TIME? And Dates?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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A History of Phantom Pain
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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