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Snowy Landscape, Vincent van Gogh, 1888

Fields in the environs of La Crau, opposite the abbey of Montmajour. One of ten snow-covered landscapes painted by Van Gogh between 1882 and 1889. Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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The Baltimore Ravens: the only professional sports club named after a work of classic literature

The Baltimore Ravens are the only professional sports club named after a work of classic literature. The Ravens take their name from the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, who lived in Baltimore. The mystical, enigmatic plot of "The Raven" tells of a bird that

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Sculptural panel over the entrance of the 60-storey General Electric Building at Rockefeller Center, New York

The image alludes to the enigmatic drawing "The Ancient of Days", completed by the artist and poet William Blake only a couple of days before his death, which shows God imprisoned within the sun at the moment of the creation of the universe, amid total nothingness. The inscription

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No, modern architecture is not always ugly

No, modern architecture is not always ugly. A residential complex in SoHo, New York, built in 2016

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The most expensive painting in the history of Latin American art: "Diego and I" by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo

The most expensive painting in the history of Latin American art is "Diego and I" by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. In November 2021 the picture was sold at Sotheby's in New York for 34.9 million US dollars. The previous record belonged to "Rivals&

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A very Halloween décor in the flat of Frederick Hughes (1943–2001), publisher of Interview magazine and business manager and executor of the estate of Andy Warhol

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On 15 September 1959 the first visit by a Soviet leader to the United States began

A Soviet sputnik in Earth orbit, a Soviet rocket on the Moon, and the Soviet leader arriving in the United States aboard a Soviet Tu-114, the largest passenger aircraft in the world. Khrushchev visited Washington, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Des Moines, and astonished the Americans with

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The Statue of Liberty in 1886 and Now

The Statue of Liberty in 1886 and now. Live with that.

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In 1968 Milan Kundera refused to stage Dostoevsky in the theatre, and seventeen years later wrote about it in the essay "Preface to a Variation", in which he speaks openly of his dislike of Dostoevsky and of the entry of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia

"I reread The Idiot and understood that even if I had to go hungry, I could not do this work. Dostoevsky's world, with its gestures that overflow their banks, its murky depths and its aggressive sentimentality, repelled me. A world where feelings are raised to the rank

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Delighted by the witty reply of a photographer accused of a life-threatening pursuit of Markle and Prince Harry, who have been likened to Princess Diana, cruelly hounded by the royal family

Delighted by the witty reply of a photographer accused of a life-threatening pursuit of Markle and Prince Harry, who have been likened to Princess Diana, cruelly hounded by the royal family. It very soon emerged, however, that what the attention-deficit couple had presented as a high-speed chase

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Easter Illumination on New York's Skyscrapers in the 1950s and 1960s

Easter illumination on New York's skyscrapers in the 1950s and 1960s. For many years in a row the city was decked out for Easter with luminous crosses on a great number of landmark buildings, but at some point it all came to an end...

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