Paul Biba

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Man From South Korea Adopts a Wild Boar and Go on Adventures Around the City Together Man's best boar!

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How Insects With Compound Eyes See the World Niba of the Deep Look series "Big Ideas" explained how insects with compound eyes see the world around them.

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8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day In the late Victorian era, Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system (and a womanizer) argued that women make excellent librarians because we have “a clear head, strong hand… and great hea…

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The Disturbing History of The children's nursery rhyme has been connected to the reign of Queen Mary I—also known as

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s *Herland* (1915) A utopian novel where men are no longer necessary.

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10 Iconic Last Words by Famous Historical Figures | TheCollector From Archimedes to Oscar Wilde, here are ten historical figures whose iconic last words you should definitely know about.

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Literary Celebrity, Mussolini’s Mouthpiece, AND American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound? By the spring of 1939, the widely acknowledged dean of Anglo-American Modernist poetry, fifty-three-year-old Ezra Pound, had lived in Europe for three decades. After leaving the United States in 19…

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6 Novels Charlotte Brontë Loved (and 6 She Loathed) Charlotte Brontë had strong literary opinions. Discover six novels she loved and six she criticized, revealing the Jane Eyre author’s surprising reading tastes.

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8 Must-Read Victorian Novels That Shaped the History of Literature | TheCollector English novelists were particularly prolific during the Victorian era, producing dozens of titles that shaped the history of world literature.

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Watch Rosalía and Björk Command an Electrifying Performance of “Berghain” at the BRIT Awards It marks first time the Spanish singer and the famously elusive Icelandic artist performed the song live on stage.

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Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More As a young amateur painter and future art school dropout, I frequently found myself haunted by the faces of two artists, that famously odd couple from my favorite art history novelization—and Kirk Dou...

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The Best Horror Movie From Every Year in the 2010s From 'Green Room' to 'Us,' these movies embody everything great about the horror films of the 2010s.

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The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897 Shell, The Iron Giant, WALL-E, Ex Machina: there is a parallel history of cinema to be told entirely through its robots. That such a history must begin with the work of Georges Méliès may not come as ...

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Leave the em-dash alone This writing panic has a 500-year precedent

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The Art of Vanishing: Hans Vredeman de Vries’ Perspective, 1604 - Flashbak In 1604, Dutch Renaissance architect, painter and engineer Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527 – c. 1607) published Perspective.

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926) Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, or The Adventures of Prince Achmed, lays fair claim to being the earliest animated feature film in existence. If we do grant it that title, it beats the next contende...

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Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919) Illustrations of Javanese *wayang kulit* puppets with vivid colour and gilding.

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Here are the finalists for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner award for fiction. Today, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced the five finalists for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The judging panel, which this year was comprised of Samantha Hunt, Tania James, and De’S…

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12 Titanic Survivors Whose Stories Put A Face On The Tragedy From the heroic to the tragic, these stories of Titanic survivors are still haunting more than a century after the doomed ship's demise.

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Did Alexander Graham Bell Steal the World’s Most Famous Patent? | TheCollector Did Alexander Graham Bell steal the telephone? Uncover the 150-year mystery of the liquid transmitter and a race for history's biggest patent.

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The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII Juan Pujol García was one of the rare individuals whose participation in World War II made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire and earned him the Iron Cross. He gained that unlikely distin...

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158 Giant Tortoises Reintroduced to Their Native Galápagos Island After 180 Years 158 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to their native Galápagos Island after 180 years since the species was declared extinct.

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Expressive Cat Drawings Capture Feline Personalities Through Gestural Lines The way this artist turns scribbles into incredibly expressive cat drawings is absolutely amazing!

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The Chilling History Behind 'Ring Around the Rosie' Does this innocent children's game double as one of the darkest nursery rhymes ever written?

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Brave, visionary and queer: the Bohemian brilliance of author George Sand With her radical politics and flamboyant affairs, Sand was no stranger to controversy, but it’s time to debunk the myths surrounding a writer ahead of her time

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10 Legendary Swords That Forged (and Broke) Empires | TheCollector Named swords have existed almost as long as swords themselves, and it is often said that legendary swords can make or break a kingdom.

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Japan's Manga Market Contracts as Print Collapse Outpaces Digital Gains - The New Publishing Standard Japan's manga market falls 1.7% to ¥693bn in 2025, ending eight-year growth streak as print sales collapse 14.4% and digital growth stalls at 2.9%.

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