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Stanford Brown
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History adjunct, former high school history teacher, antiquarian, book collector 🇺🇦🇺🇳
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Latest acquisition #UncleSam #Liberty #antifascism
May 13, 1944, issue of Liberty Magazine; the cover illustration is a painting of Uncle Sam as a baseball player, and he has just swung his bat, shattering a swastika and a rising sun from the Japanese war flag.
January 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Fourth Sunday of Advent at Wesley #UMC Taylor County, Georgia
December 22, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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Packing #floodbuckets for #UMCOR at Wesley UMC in Taylor County, GA #UMC #SGAUMC
#floodbucketchallenge
December 20, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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Seen at The National Portrait Gallery (UK)--Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, by their brother Branwell
Portrait of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, painted by their brother Branwell. The picture marked by one vertical line down the middle and four horizontal lines of damage to the paint where the canvas was folded for many years before it was discovered in 1914.
December 16, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Seen at The National Portrait Gallery (UK) #JaneAusten
Portrait of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra, in a gold frame
December 15, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book a day for 20 years #books
#BookSky💙 #bookchallenge #bookrecommendations
Book is A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
December 8, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book a day for 20 days. #Books #BookSky💙 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations 19/20
The book is The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart. The cover is a block print of a rustic, one-room schoolhouse in a rural, mountain setting. It has a tagine "A mountain school-teacher tells his story."
December 7, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one a day for 20 days. #books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BookRecommendations
18/20
The book The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949, by Robert F. Durden. The title is printed in white in a black box floating over a photo of collegiate Gothic buildings, the photo shaded blue.
December 6, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book a day for 20 days. #books #BookSky💙 #bookchallenge #bookrecommendations
17/20
Pictured is A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics. The cover shows four panels from different comic books: Superman and Lois Lane from 1938, a Little Lulu panel, a panel from Will Eisner's Spirit, and a Pogo panel.
December 5, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one per day for 20 days. #books #BookSky💙 #bookchallenge #bookrecommendations
The book shown is Tom Swift: The City in the Stars, of the early 1980s series. Tom Swift, a sturdy young man with blonde hair, stands in the foreground in a space suit, holding the helmet. Behind him is the image of a cylindrical space coony in orbit with the earth in the far background.
December 4, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book a day for 20 days #books #BookSky💙 #bookchallenge #bookrecommendations
15/20
Book is Trixie Belden and the Secret Mansion, the 1970s edition. A profile image of Trixie, a girl with short, curly blonde hair is in the left foreground looking toward a scene of herself, a teenaged boy, and another girl standing before a Victorian mansion.
December 3, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book a day for 20 days. #books
#BookSky💙 #bookchallenge #bookrecommendations
14/20
The Penguin History of Canada by Kenneth McNaught, paperback book cover has the Canadian flag against a blue sky
December 2, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one a day for 20 days. #BookSky💙 #bookchallenge #books #bookrecommendations
13/20
The book Colonel Effingham's Raid by Berry Fleming; dustjacket is blue with title in red; below the title in white is outline drawing of crossed sabres.
December 1, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Post a favorite character-doing-something-Christmasy panel, gif, scene, or cover.
1948 cover of Action Comics issue 117 showing Superman swooping down a chimney out a fireplace to delight two young children, while Santa Claus looks on in the right foreground. The text notes the issue features "A Superman Christmas Adventure."
December 1, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book a day for 20 days. #books
#BookSky💙 #bookchallenge
#bookrecommendations
12/20
The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure, 1960s/70s Grossett & Dunlap edition. Frank and Joe blue and red pullover sweaters warily peer from the shelter of a large tree look at a high tower of a mansion in the background; a beam of light like a searchlight comes from a high window of the tower.
November 30, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book a day for 20 days. 11/20 #BookSky💙 #books #bookchallenge #bookrecommendations
Book cover of Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson--a woman sits at a writing desk in 1920s-style clothing and hairstyle.
November 29, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one a day for 20 days.
10/20 Happy Thanksgiving!
#BookSky💙 #bookchallenge #books #bookrecommendations
Book is Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison, dustjacket shows an eagle weather vane against a blue background
November 28, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one a day for 20 days.
#BookSky💙 #books #bookchallenge
#bookrecommendations
Book is Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, by Margaret Leech, pictured here in a dustjacket with sketches of Civil War-era Washington
November 27, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one per day for 20 days.
#bookchallenge #BookSky💙 #books #bookrecommendations
8/20
The Secrets of Hidden Creek by Wylly Folk St. John. Three children in a rowboat on a lake look toward a ruined castle on the shore, where one windows shows a light.
November 26, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one a day for 20 days. #books #BookSky💙 #bookchallenge #bookrecommendations
Book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
November 25, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Poster for Last Christmas, Henry Golding and Emilia Clark sit on a bench in a snowy setting
November 25, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one a day for 20 days.
#books #BookSky💙 #bookchallenge #bookrecommendations
6/20
November 24, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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If you see this, post a Wonder Woman
Cover of Comic Cavalcade from 1947 featuring Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and the Flash chasing a turkey
November 24, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book a day for 20 days. #BookSky💙 #bookchallenge #books ##bookrecommendations
Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie by John Mack Faragher
November 23, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book a day for 20 days
#books #BookSky💙 #bookrecommendations
4/20
Penguin History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan
November 22, 2024 at 2:31 PM