Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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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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a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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War in Dreamland
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Patterns in Humanity
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Hey everyone!
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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Papa To The Rescue.
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And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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What Is Solipsism?
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
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The Threat of Back to Normal
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Global power has always been distributed.
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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I See The Earth! (1968)
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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