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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
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Overcoming Bias
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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What Is Populism?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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A Collection of...
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Dreams of Space -...
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
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a month ago
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