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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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The international system, that is.
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Universities as factories
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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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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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
Dreams of Space -...
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....
a year ago
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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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Dreams of Space -...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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over a year ago
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Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Why Did Rome Fall?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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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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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Cosmodrome (1987)
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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The Year of Failing To Understand.
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Little People With Agency.
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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Aristotle on Friendship
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Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
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Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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What Was Négritude?
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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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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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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