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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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What makes a good friend?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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Art of the Etruscans
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
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Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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When Was the First Crusade?
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Dr Alun Withey
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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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What Is Gnosticism?
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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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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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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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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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
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I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
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We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
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.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Xerxes the Great
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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TheCollector
Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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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...
9 months ago
“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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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Should Death Concern Us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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the rock of polynesia
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Weekend Roundup
Does Marcus Matter?
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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