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25 photos of what Paris looked like the last time it hosted the Olympics
Stacker via AOL· 5 hours agoTwice the size of Constantine's Roman arch, it was built as a monument to the victories of the ...
SAUNDERS: School’s out, and academia is due for a protest reckoning
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 58 minutes ago“To the guillotine,” they chanted, apparently undisturbed that they were aligning themselves with...
Audition for SCARLETT PIMPERNELL at Off-Broadway Theatre in Submission on 05/07
Broadway World· 2 hours agoSCARLETT PIMPERNELL Auditions Off-Broadway Theatre in Submission 05/07
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1168: Voltaire and Science | Houston Public Media
Houston Public Media· 3 days agoEpisode: 1168 Voltaire, Newton, science, and the French Revolution. Today, Newton, Voltaire, and the French Revolution.
Why Beethoven’s ninth appeals to democrats and despots alike
The Economist· 13 hours agoLudwig van Beethoven’s ninth and final symphony was first performed on May 7th 1824 at Vienna’s...
Five Best: Books on Clothes
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoReaders of his “The Painter of Modern Life” hadn’t yet recovered from the sartorial shock of the French Revolution, when centuries of monarchic and guild...
The fashion influencers of the French Revolution
Art Daily· 7 days agoMost days, Anne Higonnet is able to keep her cool. She s a distinguished professor of art history at Barnard College and Columbia University. Her
Opinion | Daniel Barenboim: What Beethoven’s Ninth Teaches Us
New York Times· 2 days agoMr. Barenboim is a pianist and conductor. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was first performed...
Why do we say ‘green thumb,’ ‘out of the blue’ and more color idioms?
NY Post via Yahoo News· 1 day agoSome have also said this phrase was first written in the mid-1800s by Thomas Carlyle, Scottish...
The Haymarket Martyrs and the origins of May Day
World Socialist Web Site· 3 days agoThe following speech was given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), at the International May Day 2024 Online...
