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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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