Image of the Month — Towers of the Caucasus

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Vovnush­ki — A pass-guard­ing tow­er com­plex in Ingushetia. Pho­to: Timur Agirov

FILMS — FEBRUARY 2020

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(Culpep­per 2020) Star Trek: Picard: Ep.1 ― Remembrance
(Miller & Ogilvie 1985) Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome
(Culpep­per 2020) Star Trek: Picard: Ep.2 ― Maps and Legends
(Pelling­ton 2002) The Moth­man Prophecies
(Pol­ci­no 2010) Fam­i­ly Guy: Ep.148 ― And Then There Were Fewer
(Culpep­per 2020) Star Trek: Picard: Ep.3 ― The End of the Beginning
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First-time listening for February 2020

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25901. (Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky) Mazep­pa [Мазепа] [com­plete opera: d. Nebolsin; Ivanov, 
. . . . . Petrov, Pokrovskaya]
25902. (Child­ish Gam­bi­no) Culde­sac [mix­tape]
25903. (Christof Willibald Gluck) Telema­co [com­plete opera; d. Märzendör­fer; Bum­bry, Studer]
25904. (BTS aka Bang­tan Boys) Skool Luv Affair Spe­cial Edition
25905. (John Coltrane) Coltrane
25906. (Laugh­ing Bud­dha) Illu­sions and Collusions
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READING — FEBRUARY 2020

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24331. (Robert Sil­ver­berg) Recalled to Life
24332. (Hans-Dieter Bad­er) Archae­o­log­i­cal Geo­mag­net­ic Report Owhiti Bay, Waiheke, 
. . . . . Auck­land [arti­cle]
24333. (Guð­varður Már Gunnlaugs­son) Árni Magnússon’s Ini­tial Col­lec­tion [arti­cle]
24334. (Gwich’in Elders) Nành’ Kak Geen­jit Gwich’in Ginjik
24335. (Francesca Balos­si Restel­li) Yumuk­te­pe Ear­ly Ceram­ic Pro­duc­tion: Dark Ver­sus Light 
. . . . . Coloured Wares and the Con­struc­tion of Social Iden­ti­ty [arti­cle]
24336. (Somdeep Sen) Writ­ing the “Refugee Cri­sis” ― Pro­pos­als for Activist Research [arti­cle]
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Image of the Month

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FILMS — JANUARY 2020

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(Okawara 1993) Godzil­la vs Mechagodzil­la 2 [ゴジラ対メカゴジラ2]
(Tenold 2019) Bran­don’s Cult Movie Reviews: Godzil­la vs Mechagodzil­la 2
(Waters 1981) Polyester
(Lucas 1971) THX 1138
(Moser 2017) Big Mouth: Ep.2 ― Every­body Bleeds
(Favreau 2017) The Orville: Ep.1 ― Old Wound
(McGowan 1930) Pups Is Pups [Our Gang/Little Ras­cals #100]
(2010) Robert Sapol­sky — Human Behav­ioral Biol­o­gy: Lec­ture 22 ― Emer­gence and Complexity
(Ander­son 1976) Logan’s Run
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First-time listening for January 2020

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25891. (Johann Sebas­t­ian Bach) Can­ta­ta #100 “Was Gott tut, das ist wohlge­tan”, bwv.100
25892. (Johann Sebas­t­ian Bach) Can­ta­ta #101 “Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott”, bwv.101
25893. (Johann Sebas­t­ian Bach) Can­ta­ta #102 “Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben”,
. . . . . bwv.102
25894. (Slowthai) Noth­ing Great About Britain
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READING — JANUARY 2020

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24316. (Matthew Gard­ner, Lore­na Roque & Steve Wamhoff) Cor­po­rate Tax Avoid­ance in the
. . . . . First Year of the Trump Tax Law [report]
24317. (Hec­tor A. Gar­cia) Alpha God ― The Psy­chol­o­gy of Reli­gious Vio­lence and Oppression
24318. (Sing C. Chew) From the Red Sea to the Indi­an Ocean and Beyond ― The Maritime
. . . . . “Silk” Roads of the Eurasian World Econ­o­my 200BC-AD500 [arti­cle]
24319. (Jes­si­ca E. Lib­by-Roberts, et al) The Fea­ture­less Trans­mis­sion of Spec­tra of Two Super-
. . . . . Puff Plan­ets [arti­cle]
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Image of the Month

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FILMS — DECEMBER 2019

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(Wag­gn­er 1941) The Wolf Man
(Branagh 2017) Mur­der on the Ori­ent Express
(Hair 2019) Rick and Morty: Ep.33 ― The Old Man and the Seat
(King 2009) Under the Mountain
(Filoni 2019) The Man­dalo­ri­an: Ep.1 ― Chap­ter 1
(Hair 2019) Rick and Morty: Ep.34 ― One Crew over the Crew­coo’s Morty
(Gas­nier 1930) The Quar­ry [aka Shad­ow of the Law]
(Zeglio 1967) Mis­sion Star­dust [ ..4 ..3 ..2 ..1 …morte]
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