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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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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
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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US President or American Caesar?
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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History Today Feed
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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TheCollector
7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
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TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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TheCollector
4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
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American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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TheCollector
Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
TheCollector
What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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Classical Wisdom
Upcoming Events
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a year ago
TheCollector
History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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TheCollector
3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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TheCollector
What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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TheCollector
What Was Organization Todt?
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TheCollector
5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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TheCollector
Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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TheCollector
Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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TheCollector
Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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TheCollector
Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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TheCollector
How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
TheCollector
Did Jesus Live in India?
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TheCollector
8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
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...
a year ago
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
TheCollector
The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
2 months ago
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
TheCollector
Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
TheCollector
Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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TheCollector
Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
TheCollector
9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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TheCollector
Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
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TheCollector
What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
TheCollector
Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
a month ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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