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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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The Art of Pompeii
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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What Is the Will to Power?
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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Hey everyone!
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This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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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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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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