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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
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TheCollector
The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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weird medieval guys
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What Is Capoeira?
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Games Nations Play.
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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A Week Off And A New Language
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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What Is Theodicy?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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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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Service to what nation?
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5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
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Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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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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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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We Are All Civilisational States
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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A Brief History of Chile
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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How Did Railways Help Standardize Time in Britain?
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
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over a year ago
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
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Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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What is the Soul?
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Aristotle on Luck
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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