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Snakes, Birds, and Dragons: Decoding Niki de Saint Phalle’s Glittering Pop Bestiary
Throughout her practice, Niki Saint Phalle repeatedly referenced a personal and mythical bestiary that she brought to life in ...
The Doctor and the Pilot Who Saved the Eyesight of Millions
Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.
The Rise of the Selfish Plutocrats
How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...
The fossil skull that rocked the world – 100 years later scientists are grappling with the Taung find’s complex colonial legacy
The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
Deseret News archives: Treaty was signed to end Spanish-American War. What it meant for Utahns
On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.
Politifact3d
Flag on government websites not Trump’s nod to the Confederacy. It’s been used since 2017
The flag icon has been used on government sites since 2017, said a spokesperson for the General Services Association, which guides federal website standards. The flag had only nine stars because of ...
‘I do think the Chinese and Northern Ireland people share a lot in common’ - China’s consulate in Belfast welcomes Year of the Snake
Inviting the Irish News to the consulate building in south Belfast, Li Nan shared the traditions and challenges still facing the Chinese community.
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The geopolitics of Australia Day
Instead of Australia as we know it, might several nations today inhabit the continent, each with different histories, national cultures and geopolitical world views and strategic ... colonisation (and ...
Nature16d
The Land of an African Sultan: Travels in Morocco' 1887, 1888, and 1889
A GOOD deal has been written about Morocco lately, and Mr. Harris's volume is an interesting, although not a very important, contribution to the literature of the subject. He describes first a ...
The Independent16d
‘One flag policy’: Trump admin tells US embassies they can’t fly the Pride, BLM flags
Rubio’s new policy comes after a 2021 order from former president Joe Biden authorizing State Department buildings to fly other flags, including the LGBTQ+ Pride flag and the Black Lives Matter ...