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Stove plate. Date: 1519. Maker/Artist: Meister G.F.(?), Alsace. Medium: Cast iron.
Motto: “Wie wohl er doch / kein Pferde was / Fin Wyb im denocht ybersass” (though he never was a steed, yet a woma... View More
Motto: “Wie wohl er doch / kein Pferde was / Fin Wyb im denocht ybersass” (though he never was a steed, yet a woma... View More
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Is There Life After Death?: John Cleese and a Panel of Scientists Discuss That Eternal Question
Nevertheless, he remains decidedly non-dead (and indeed active on Twitter) today, though no doubt reality-based enough to accept that he’s no less mortal than his fellow Pythons Graham Chapman and Ter...
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When Maurice Sendak Created a Dark Nutcracker Ballet
Tchaikovsky’s famous score remained in place, but Sendak and Stowell ducked the source material for, well, more source material.
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Born today in 1865...Rudyard Kipling, English writer, poet, and novelist. His most famous works include 'Jungle Book', 'Kim' and the poem 'Mandalay'.
Rudyard Kipling - Historic UK
Rudyard Kipling, poet and author, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 in recognition of his great body of work, including ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘Kim’ and the poem ‘If’.
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Watch Bing Crosby’s Final Christmas Special, Featuring a Famous Duet with Bowie, and Bowie Introducing His New Song, “Heroes” (1977)
Bing Crosby died in October of 1977, but that didn’t stop him from appearing in living rooms all over America for Christmas.
Watch Awesome Human Choreography That Reproduces the Murmurations of Starling Flocks
A number of choreographers have taken inspiration from the movement of birds. Sadek Waff, creator of thrillingly precise “murmurations” such as the one above, is also inspired by street dance -- parti...
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There is nothing awesome about those mask wearing drones...
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What Does It Take to Be a Great Artist?: An Aging Painter Reflects on His Creative Process & Why He Will Never Be a Picasso
What does it take to be an artist? In the short film above by Jakub Blank, artist Bill Blaine meditates on the question as he strolls around his home and studio and talks about his work.
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The Cubiculum Nocturnum. This is an accurate reconstruction of a bedroom from the Roman villa at Boscoreale (ca. 50–40 B.C.) that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, A.D. (Sourc... View More
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Watch the Building of the Empire State Building in Color: The Creation of the Iconic 1930s Skyscraper From Start to Finish
Ambition is not unknown in the New York City of the 2020s, but the New York City of the 1920s seems to have consisted of nothing but.
Why “White Christmas,” “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Let It Snow,” and Other Classic Christmas Songs Come from the 1940s
Cast your mind back, if you will, to Christmastime eighty years ago, and imagine which holiday songs would have been in the air — or rather, which ones wouldn’t have been.
