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Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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What Was Négritude?
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Eternal Glory
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Hidden History
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Global Inequality...
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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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.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
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How can we train Resilience?
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
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11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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The "New" Ancient City
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Forgotten Gods
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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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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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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The Mother of Rome
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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