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Head of an Ife King
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50 Years of Publications, 500 Books, FREE from the Met
If there’s one thing I love more than finding a good book, it might be finding a good book for free. The Metropolitain Museum of Art has made over 500 titles available for free download. A few that caught my eye (and might catch yours): All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860 […]
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Primitive Technology: Forge Blower
I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using only primitive technology. I began by fanning a fire with a piece of bark to increase its temperature. It […]
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What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona? — Cuepoint — Medium
This is the story of how an unlikely threesome—a girl, a heavy metal band and their fans — pioneered the web at its infancy, bucked the status quo and proved that the Internet wasn’t a fad. It’s 1994. I’m working at Capitol Records in Hollywood, California. via What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona? — Cuepoint — Medium.
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The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus.
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The 40-Year Slump
What has vanished over the past 40 years isn’t just Americans’ rising incomes. It’s their sense of control over their lives. The young college graduates working in jobs requiring no more than a high-school degree, the middle-aged unemployed who have permanently opted out of a labor market that has no place for them, the 45- […]
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Unwelcome tasks and burdens
…Town notables, as town autonomy vanished, found they had become subordinate implements of the imperial bureaucracy, and the life went out of their public functions, which grew every decade more disagreeable, more profitless and more oppressive. They had to be driven to their unwelcome tasks and burdens, which brought no real honor and gratified no […]
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river of monks | gregfallis.com
Interesting…Des Moines as “the Monks” never quite settled with me. I look forward to learning more about this alternative explanation: But there’s more. One of the first people to call the river by its European name was the French Jesuit missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette. He’d encountered natives of the Peoria tribe at the confluence […]
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Exclusive: The first pictures of blood from a 10,000 year old Siberian woolly mammoth
This is bizarre. Exclusive: The first pictures of blood from a 10,000 year old Siberian woolly mammoth.
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A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Books on Google Play
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Books on Google Play.