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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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I talked to Terry Gross!
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
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Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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the promise of pancakes
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over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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The Sense Of An Ending.
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But right back where we started from.
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What Was the Chaco War?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
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a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Summary of changes for October 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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
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.
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oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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What Government Governs Best?
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a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
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6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
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The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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Why drug history?
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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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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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Global Inequality...
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Quesnay and China
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Dreams of Space -...
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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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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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