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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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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.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Secrets of the Sibyls
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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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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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Which Playwright did it better?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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Early Christianity
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Why Socrates Matters
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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Leaving behind the history written in letters of blood
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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over a year ago
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Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Essential Classics
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Trying to Understand...
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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Dreams of Space -...
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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No Women Allowed?
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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What Is the Didache?
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
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Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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