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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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What should we do with Seneca?
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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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
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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And how does it reflect on us?
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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We...
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Does poverty cause violent crime?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Why drug history?
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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