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Edward B. Foote’s *Plain Home Talk* (1896 edition) – The Public Domain Review
If his social messages were prescient, Foote’s scholarship reflects the limitations of his time. His medical account is united by…
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Kitagawa Utamaro’s prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (c. 1800) – The Public Domain Review
These prints show little other than the untamed eyebrows and shaggy hair – rendered strand by strand in the style…
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*Tiny Cryptic #6* — The Public Domain Review
The sixth installment in our series of tiny and free cryptic crossword puzzles, published every two weeks to coincide with…
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*Sea Monsters Unmasked* and *Sea Fables Explained* by Henry Lee (1883) — The Public Domain Review
For Lee, the stories about sailors – “Jolly Jack Tars” – can be explained by the natural superstitions he believes…
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Photos of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917) – The Public Domain Review
The National Geographic article ends with Whiting going apocalyptic. “As we turn one last glance toward the moonlit camp and…
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Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos and the Alma Mahler doll – The Public Domain Review
Oskar learned to love the monster – or at least live with it, and hired a maid named Hulda (whom…
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Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte – The Public Domain Review
After the furore surrounding her debut, MacLane published a second book the following year. Expecting more in the same vein,…
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THE CORMORANT AT 55 SOUTH: SILVERSEA UNVEILS ALL PUBLIC AREAS OF THE LONG-AWAITED HOTEL | News
Silversea, the leading experiential luxury and expedition travel brand, has unveiled the interior spaces of its new 150-room hotel, The…
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Nikolai Agnivtsev’s *Small Screw* (1925) – The Public Domain Review
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s 1925 agitprop children’s book Vintik-Shpintik seems to be heeding Kormchii’s call. It opens in a factory full of…
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The Six Knots (c. before 1521) – The Public Domain Review
In Peter Cornell’s 1987 novel: The Ways of Paradise: Selected Notes from a Lost Manuscriptwrites the elusive, nameless scholar-protagonist: “The…
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