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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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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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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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The Many Roads to Rome
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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The Art of Pompeii
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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The True Knights Templar
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Who Was Vortigern?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
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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 Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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History Today Review of the Year
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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A Book 100 Years in the Making
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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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...
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Summary of changes for October
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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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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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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.
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Summary of changes for June
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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What Was Jim Crow?
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
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It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Empress Theodora
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Stoicism and Stress
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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How to use generative AI for historical research
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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The First Biographers
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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