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Watch the Renaissance Painting, The Battle of San Romano, Get Brought Beautifully to Life in a Hand-Painted Animation
Before the advent of the motion picture, humanity had the theater — but we also had paintings. Though physically still by definition, paint on canvas could, in the hands of a sufficiently imaginative ...
The Incredible Story of the Hoover Dam
President Franklin Roosevelt officially opened the Hoover Dam, the largest public works project of its time. “Approximately 5 million barrels of cement and 45 pounds of reinforcement steel” went into ...
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Daniel Boone Sitting at the Door of His Cabin on the Great Osage Lake, 1826 https://wikiart.org/en/thomas-cole/daniel-boone-sitting-at-the-door-of-his-cabin-on-the-great-osage-lake-1826 #thomascole #c... View More
Night in the Roman Forum. In the background the beautiful columns of the Temple of Saturn
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Archaeologists Discover a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Glass Bowl in Perfect Condition
If you’re planning a trip to the Netherlands, do try to fit in Nijmegen, the country’s oldest city.
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Watch a Joyful Video Where 52 Renowned Choreographers Link Together to Create a Dance Chain Letter
Dance videos are having a moment, fueled in large part by TikTok. Professionals and amateurs alike use the platform to showcase their work, and while the vast majority of performers seem to be in or b...
An 8-Minute Animated Flight Over Ancient Rome
Rome may seem a city of spires and steeples and towers that reach up towards eternal truths,′ said Anthony Burgess of the great city in which he lived in the mid-70s. ’But this city is not built in th...
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The Queen’s Guard Pays Tribute to Meatloaf, Playing a Brass Version of “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”
Marvin Lee Aday, aka Meatloaf, died late last week, reportedly after falling ill with Covid. At Buckingham Palace, the Queen’s Guard paid tribute to the musician and his 1993 hit “I’d Do Anything for ...
How French Music Teacher Nadia Boulanger Raised a Generation of Composers: Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Quincy Jones, Philip Glass & More
One of my favorite quotes about creativity comes from 20th-century electric bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius: “You don’t get better, you grow.” The aspiration to get “better” implies a category of “best” ...