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1 day ago · The Athelstan Museum in Malmesbury, located in the Town Hall building, has a range of events going on across the town and will be displaying items on loan from The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the British Library and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Whit and Kim Hanks, the owners of the Old Bell Hotel and Abbey House in Malmesbury, donated £5,000 ...
1 day ago · Graceland opened as a museum and tourist attraction in 1982 as a tribute to Elvis Presley, the singer and actor who died in August 1977 at age 42. It draws hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
1 day ago · Vince Carter's highlight-reel dunks for the Toronto Raptors in the early 2000s inspired a generation of Canadian basketball players. Hamilton's Kia Nurse is hoping that a new WNBA franchise awarded to Toronto, set to debut in the league's 2026 season, will have the same impact on Canadian girls and women as Carter did more than 20 years ago.
1 day ago · His work is held in the collections of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern and the Victoria & Albert Museum, both in London. Though memory and the mists in which it necessarily resides formed the glowing core of his oeuvre, Chaimowicz in later years hinted that recollection for him might also have been a kind ...
1 day ago · Where It Began brings together works from my recent solo show at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum in London, with new unique artworks that I’ve created especially for the unique region of ...
1 day ago · Morvern Lines - 23.5.24. The early Victorians looked on women who hunted as ‘not quite nice’. Lady Mildred Boynton, one of the contributors to a famous book, Ladies in the Field (1894) wrote: ‘A few years ago, a shooting lady was almost as rare as the Great Auk; if here and there one member of the sex, more venturesome than her fellows, were bold enough to take to the gun in preference ...
1 day ago · Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was a Norwegian-born American attorney and politician active in (Wisconsin) and (Minnesota).A (Republican), he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the (Wisconsin) and (Minnesota legislatures) and to the (U.S. House of Representatives) and the (United States Senate) from Minnesota, and served as the ...
