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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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Dreams of Space -...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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The Essential Greeks
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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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.
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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The Diversity Paradox.
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TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Flashbak
Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
TheCollector
5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
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TheCollector
London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
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How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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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...
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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TheCollector
More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Who Was George Hodel?
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TheCollector
Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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TheCollector
What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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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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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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Hundred Rabbits
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In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
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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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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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African History...
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Plato On Knowledge
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Hundred Rabbits
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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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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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
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Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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Weekend Roundup
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Patterns in Humanity
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Tolkien and the Classics
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The Ancient Ozempic
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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