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5 days ago · 1891 Philadelphia Museum of Art: Woman's Building (Gallery of Honor): Twilight Confidences [14] Oil on canvas 1888 Georgia Museum of Art, [15] Athens, Georgia Carol H. Beck: Portrait of Governor Robert Emory Pattison [16] Oil on canvas ca.1891 Pennsylvania Capitol Collection of Fine Art, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania James Carroll Beckwith: Mr ...
3 days ago · The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that ...
5 days ago · The use of film as an art form traces its origins to several earlier traditions in the arts such as (oral) storytelling, literature, theatre and visual arts. Cantastoria and similar ancient traditions combined storytelling with series of images that were shown or indicated one after the other.
5 days ago · St. Pancras, after whom this district is named, was a young Phrygian nobleman who suffered martyrdom at Rome under the Emperor Diocletian for his adherence to the Christian faith; he became a favourite saint in England.
3 days ago · By David K. Li and Caroline Radnofsky. The man charged after what authorities said a ppeared to be an attempt t o assassinate Donald Trump had been a vocal supporter of the former president before ...
4 days ago · Ten days after his arrival, he joined the Inner Temple, one of the four London law colleges (The Temple). Mahatma Gandhi, the revered Indian leader and advocate of nonviolent resistance, inspired a nation to fight for independence from British rule through peaceful means, leaving an enduring legacy in history.
5 days ago · Karl Dönitz (born September 16, 1891, Grünau-bei-Berlin, Germany—died December 24, 1980, Aumühle, West Germany) was a German naval officer and creator of Germany’s World War II U-boat fleet who for a few days succeeded Adolf Hitler as German head of state.
