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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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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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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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No Left Turn
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Tension-Filled Black Holes
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Dreams of Space -...
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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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).
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http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Brushing for Britain
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Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
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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
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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Moon Base (1959)
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Summary of changes for September 2023
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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