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78The Progressive Movement
The Progressive Movement began late in the 19th Century. Its Central Tenets are Statism, Income Redistribution, Unionism, Government Management of the Economy, womb to tomb provision for its citizens, and a Libertine Social Policy. To...
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74Mars Attacks trading cards from 1962
Amongst personal belongings I chose to bring with me to Tenerife are my collection of Mars Attacks cards that I have had since 1962 when I was only nine. Sadly I only managed to get 42 of the set of 55 because Bubbles Inc, the company that made...
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71Dystopain Novels: Top 10 Dystopias
Dystopian novels are some of my favorites. There's just something about the idea of dark and disturbing futures that really makes for some intense reading. There are many different types of dystopia, from the feminist dystopias that Margaret Atwood...
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67What Does it Take to be Goth or Steampunk, You Ask?
Goth or gothic style encompasses music, fashion, and aesthetic tastes that tend toward the dark, gloomy, or macabre. Goth's stylistic sensibilities come from 19th-century gothic literature, so the Victorian era is a big influence here as it is with...
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75A* GCSE English Literature - The Time Machine
A* GCSE English Literature - The Time Machine. How does H.G.Wells describe the future world and its inhabitants in “The Time Machine?” Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction, principally dealing with the impact of imagined science or technology, it is usually set in the past or in the future, or in complete contrast; a remote region if the universe. Many well known science fiction writers are alive today, and many have passed, leaving pages of many great tales...
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60'the Future'! what science fiction writers totally missed.
I grew up reading the science fiction written during the period of time that has come to be referred to as 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction'. Coming of age in the 1960s I was blessed to have the perfect Cultural backdrop to complement the stories...
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79Global Warming Science And The Dawn Of Flight: Svante Arrhenius
In 1896, Svante Arrhenius published a scientific paper containing the first mathematical model of CO2-induced global warming. It took him a year of laborious hand calculation, and proved quite influential. But he couldn't have done it without the work of American astronomer and aviation pioneer Samuel Langley. Here's the story.
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64The Open Conspiracy by H G Wells
In 1928 H.G Wells wrote a book THE OPEN CONSPIRACY describing the organization behind all the movements that have brought us to our present sorry state of affairs. Is there a world conspiracy for controlling the people ? According to H G Wells there...
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