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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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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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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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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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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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What is the Soul?
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Typhoons and mold
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Overcoming Bias
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Forgotten Gods
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Rocket Divers (1962)
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Death of the King of Siam
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Patterns in Humanity
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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The Death of Clive of India
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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