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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Young Technician December, 1957
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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Overcoming Bias
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One, Two (1965)
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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A Collection of...
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Patterns in Humanity
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Moon Trip (1958)
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Global Inequality...
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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