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Blast Off (1973)
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Hundred Rabbits
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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How the CCP is Closing China
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Summary of changes for February
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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The Great Flood
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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The Furies
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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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...
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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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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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