Dreams of Space -...
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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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Beware Value Dashboards
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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Unlike For Like.
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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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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Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Out Of Control.
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
4 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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The Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
a month ago
Another of my essays in French.
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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How can we train Resilience?
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
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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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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
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Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of his adopted city of Philadelphia and the aeronautical industry, and photographs of lightning. Setting out to prove “lightning bolts were not of the zig-zag form pictured by artists”,...
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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The True Knights Templar
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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I See The Earth! (1968)
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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What Is Nestorianism?
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
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According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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What Was the First Written Language?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Plato and Atlantis
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