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Who Was the Inspiration Behind the ‘Gibson Girl’ Illustrations? The Artist Said She Was Every Woman Charles Dana Gibson’s archetype became the original American “it girl” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and helped transform fashion and beauty by Michelle Mehrtens https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/who-was-the-inspiration-behind-the-gibson-girl-illustrations-the-artist-said-she-was-every-woman-180988014/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550 Charles Dana Gibson at PG:
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Richard the Lionheart: New Study Rethinks His Capture After the Crusade by Attila Bárány
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Historian Attila Bárány re-examines how Richard the Lionheart was captured after the Third Crusade, arguing that political rivalries, route choic...
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What January taught George Orwell about control and resistance Like many of us, George Orwell saw January as a month to be endured rather than enjoyed. You can picture him steeling himself against its cold, gloom, rain, frost and wind. by Nathan Waddell
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What January taught George Orwell about control and resistance
Like many of us, Orwell saw January as a month to be endured rather than enjoyed.
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Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death Volcanic eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe. by Jennifer Ouellette
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Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death
Volcanic eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe.
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"Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it." The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) Dame Agatha Christie died #OTD 50 years ago. She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
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The Puzzling Genius of Albrecht Dürer’s “Melencolia I” Melencolia I is one of the undisputed masterpieces of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, which still fascinates and puzzles with its complex symbolism. by Anastasiia Kirpalov
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Melencolia I is one of the undisputed masterpieces of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, which still fascinates and puzzles with its co...
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