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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
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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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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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