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Little Houses on the Prairie
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD A Shrinking American Dream in Nebraska: What the Homestead Act Was About, and How it Continues to Shape How We Live and Think
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Civilization in Ruins? Romans Speak!
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Real People Hide Under Rocks In the Hills
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Making Great Exhibitions of Themselves
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD/THROWBACK Maybe we're harder to impress with spectacles in 2024 than people were in 1851. Maybe not. PLUS NBH Gifts!
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Reading -- The Room
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Legendary place of reading and thinking, plus Annette's uniquely grumpy takes on the British Museum and London
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The Ministry of Truth
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD On my way to the former home of competing truths in London, I stop by this chilling place
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Historic Buildings of Kent
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD It's Saturday. It Must Be Canterbury.
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Multi-Python Castle (with a real past)
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD: Better Leave Doune Castle Before I Taunt You a Second Time
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Reading the Abbey
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD English abbeys start to look alike . . . Until we look closer, and read a bit
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Ashes to Ashes
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD A "Natural" Disaster That Killed a Town, plus Annette gets irritated by a museum
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Strange Times
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD A Weird Century-Old Silent Movie That Still Speaks
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Recovery (3) 21st Century Glendale
More than 140 years later, tour sites of an extraordinary Land Back movement
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Logs and Mortar of the New Deal
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Pandemic Time Out In a Hotel Built By Desperately Poor Lads a Lifetime Ago,
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