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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
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Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Should We Be Skeptics?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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One Way Or Another ....
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Only Connect ....
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
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an island in the maelstrom
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
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...
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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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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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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Art of the Etruscans
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Artemisia of Caria
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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The "New" Ancient City
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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What Is Voguing?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
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Both in the ancient world... and today?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
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This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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