October 25, 2024 An update from our 2023 Olivia James Travelling Fellowship winner, Sarah Hilker: The Olivia James Travelling Fellowship enabled me to spend the 2023-2024 year in Greece, where I began and made substantial progress on a new project, […]
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“People have forgotten what life is all about,” Robert De Niro’s character says in the film Awakenings after being revived from the shut-down state he had been in for 30 years. “They’ve forgotten what it is to be alive.” Based
When the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Co. launched the Pony Express on April 3, 1860, fanfare for the new express mail service made newspaper headlines from New York to San Francisco. The cheers came loudest from California
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In today’s newsletter, Andrew Marantz reports on Tucker Carlson’s influence on Trumpism, and then: “Put your earphones on to white noise, and just look around,” Tucker Carlson has said. “Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?”Photographs
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The word “Seminole” is derived from the Muscogean word simanó-li, or “runaway,” reflecting a common heritage, as Upper Creeks from Alabama, Lower Creeks from Georgia, other affiliated tribes and escaped African slaves all sought sanctuary in Spanish Florida. There they mixed
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Still Life Under the Lamp, Pablo Picasso, 1962 @ Succession Picasso / DACS, London 2024 Pablo Picasso is most famous for his role in the Cubist movement, creating abstract paintings that showed a subject from multiple perspectives. Now, a new
Early this year I was alerted to the opportunity to acquire this unusual lithograph from 1865. I was surprised to find that neither the Library of Congress nor the New York Public Library, which has a large collection of digitized
October 29, 2024 by Gil Vilarinho One of our 2023 Archaeology of Portugal Fellowship winners, Gil Vilarinho, provides us with an update: As Roman stone exploitation was not hitherto subject to any systematic analysis in what is now Portugal, our
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Scientists have broken a 100-year-old chemistry rule to synthesize a class of molecules previously thought to be too unstable to form. The molecules in question violate Bredt’s rule, which describes where certain types of bonds can occur within a class
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