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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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weird medieval guys
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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Is it good to question everything?
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Is it good to question everything?
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Overcoming Bias
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Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Global Inequality...
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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There is no exit for dictators
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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How the CCP is Closing China
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Secrets of the Scythians
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
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Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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St. Nicholas
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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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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The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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