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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
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Free French Bombers Over France
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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A Collection of...
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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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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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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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...
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
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a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
‘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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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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