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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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over a year ago
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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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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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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a year ago
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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How French Was Medieval England?
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
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A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Flashbak
Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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A Book 100 Years in the Making
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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TheCollector
Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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