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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Summary of changes for June 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 June.
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100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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The world according to Garegnani
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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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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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Columbine 25 Years On
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Dreams of Space -...
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...
a year ago
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...
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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