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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Trying to Understand...
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
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over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
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a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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A Collection of...
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9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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An indispensable organization
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
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over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
Dr Alun Withey
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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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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
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a year ago
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Devant la guerre
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
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A book review from the future.
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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