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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Summary of changes for December 2023
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100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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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...
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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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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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