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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
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Unlike For Like.
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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over a year ago
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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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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A Strange Defeat.
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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What Is Voguing?
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Summary of changes for August 2023
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
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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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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Arguing with the Dead
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
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Europe turns away from America.
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Blast Off (1973)
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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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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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History as Tragedy?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Seneca On Clemency
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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What Are Conlangs?
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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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...
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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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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
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over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
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“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Should We Navel Gaze?
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Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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The Electoral College Explained
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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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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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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