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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
3 weeks ago
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
7 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
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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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
a year ago
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
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a complete history of an African monument
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Weekend Roundup
Beneath the Waves...
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
5 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
9 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
6 months ago
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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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
7 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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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...
a year ago
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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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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