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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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The Great Experience (1963)
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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the promise of pancakes
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Summary of changes for November 2023
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Hey everyone!
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Moving With the Times?
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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the rock of polynesia
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Start to Infinity (1978)
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A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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