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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
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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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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African History...
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
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Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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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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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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government in central Africa.
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
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a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
African History...
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an African portrait of an African society
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Who Was Julian?
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Beware the Lides of March
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
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Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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What Is Populism?
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The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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