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This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Does Free Will Exist?
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
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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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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
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It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
Hundred Rabbits
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Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
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On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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The Story of Thebes
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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