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Commuting? Have a baby? Mary Cassatt's engaging scene in an omnibus, 1890, is for you. From her A+ Japanese prints phase. She was born on this day in 1844.

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Ace Combat 7 pretends to be a game about jet fighter combat, but in reality it's a program for generating beautiful animations of multi-colored ribbons twisting and turning around each other in 3-D space.

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"Sit at least 3 feet away from and at right angles to windows" good lighting ergonomics, although the "lion in the office" part is more dubious. safetyservices.ucdavis.edu/units/occupa...

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Ich lerne Deutsch, indem ich mir Videospielrezensionen zum Thema Straßenbau anschaue. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfic... - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c_G... ^ I used Google Translate... I didn't know "indem" can mean "by doing something" . And I was confused by that "mir" www.reddit.com/r/German/com...

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as vaquiñas fallaron a súa tirada de salvación contra feitizo baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Chain_L...

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Canto máis o penso, máis me amola ese aspecto da peli. Se estás en contra dos parques eólicos, paréceme ben que te inventes unha historia dun malvado especulador eólico comenenos. Pero haiche algo de tramposo en meter o tema con calzador cando te inspiras nunha historia real.

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Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery open.spotify.com/episode/57tK... www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...

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The Chinese Typewriter: A History open.spotify.com/episode/5GC3... www.goodreads.com/book/show/34... The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age open.spotify.com/episode/483T... www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

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the rebus principle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus#R... "writing is parasitic on speech" www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall... Chinese characters across Asia open.spotify.com/episode/4spw... (6:00) "there's a myth out there that Chinese characters are pictures"

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Wenceslaus Hollar en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wencesl...

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Este libriño sobre Exeria gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeria_... vai ser de libre descarga por uns días. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Schopenhauer, pointing to a rock rolling down a slope: see that rock? It has a Will. Maybe it doesn't have complex human-like motives, but a Will it has. me, agreeing: it totally makes sense once you think about it, Arthur.

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✍️ TRIBUNA | Luís Alonso Álvarez: A trata galega de escravizados (II). Aprendendo o oficio, 1815-1820 👉 Entre 1815 e 1820 un total de 37 expedicións financiadas por galegos mercaron e trasladaron a América dez mil escravos africanos, dos que uns mil morreron xa na propia travesía

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the 90s were a wild time. if i told you how many magazines there were you wouldnt even believe me

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Don't get upset, it's just a syntax error. (Source.)

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In January 1977’s Comic Media News #29, DC Comic’s new publisher Jeanette Khan responds to criticism that the company’s many alt-worlds & suchlike alienate readers. Darned if it doesn’t read as if the mid-80s “Crisis On Infinite Earths” began cooking in JK’s very first year in the job.

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Spanish translation of Giuseppe Baretti's "A journey from London to Genoa, through England, Portugal, Spain and France" www.amazon.com/Londres-Ingl... On the Internet Archive: I archive.org/details/jour... II archive.org/details/jour... III archive.org/details/ajou... IV archive.org/details/jour...

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"Golpistas e represores: Retratos e memoria histórica de falanxistas galegos"—Luís Lamela mastodon.gal/@DiazCarrete...

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El furby fenicio no exist... (Museo arqueológico de Barcelona)

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illustration, personal computer games, magazine (1984) archive.org/details/Pers...

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Me as a teenager: that Mon Mothma character from Star Wars really caught my eye. I wonder if there's an established term for these mature women I find so alluring. "Galacto-matrons" perhaps? Me today: *reads Andor episode reviews while waiting for a prostate exam*

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