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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
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Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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What Is Theodicy?
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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
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
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a complete history of an African monument
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
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a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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The Nature of Love
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm...
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
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The Shire must be brought to heel
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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The Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Dreams of Space -...
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...
10 months ago
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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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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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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