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https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
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Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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6 Must-See English Castles
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Io Saturnalia!
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
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Who Was Averroes?
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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What Is Voguing?
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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