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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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To all the newspapers I loved
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Hundred Rabbits
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
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10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Rome's Worst General?
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
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over a year ago
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
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Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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A Collection of...
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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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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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The First Stoic
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Teach Your Children ....
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Hundred Rabbits
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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African History...
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Rocket Divers (1962)
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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How the South Became Republican
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
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Global power has always been distributed.
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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