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October 3, 1945; Chopin: The Day the Music Died. The brief life of Chopin, one of music’s earliest superstars, ended on this day when the sickly composer fell victim to tuberculosis. Source- | This Day In Music. For those who may not know. Elvis Presley was known as the King of ...
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"I thought, This is the only way I can express the scream of his silent body."The resulting image became the defining photograph of an ongoing war that, by the time Demir pressed her shutter, had killed some 220,000 people. It was taken not in Syria, a country the world preferred to...
The Invention of Cinema The history of film began in the late nineteenth century, with the invention of ‘magic lantern’ optical toys (such as the Phenakistoscope and the Zoetrope) which presented short, repetitive animations exploiting the eye’s persistence of vision. Coleman Sellers modified ...
Disko Bay and Jakobshavn Isbræ, a calving outlet glacier from the Greenland Ice Sheet, seen from southwest. Jakobshavn Isfjord and Jakobshavn Isbræ is seen near the centre of the picture. Disko Island is seen to the left, and part of the Greenland Ice Sheet is seen in the backgro...
1/Jan/1881 Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes 2/Jan/1947 Lord Bevin commented that with half of the population of beggars and thieves, India is ungovernable Nation 3/Jan/1925 Benito Mussolini announces he will become dictator of Italy 4/Ja
Abstract art, painting, sculpture, or graphic art in which the portrayal of things from the visible world plays little or no part. In its strictest sense, abstract art is the art made out of forms not drawn from the visible world, and it is distinct from
[November, 1918] With the signing of the armistice, German soldiers, hollow-eyed with battle fatigue and hunger, abandon their trenches and begin walking home from France four long years after Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd had boastfully promised them victory there within four months. Their dirty gray colum...
Auguste Rodin Burghers of Calais late 1800s bronze french modern sculpture Edvard MunchThe Scream late 1800s oil associated with expressionism/symbolism James Ensor Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 late 1800s oil Less XX, associated with expressionism, symbolism Gustave Klimt The Kiss early 1900...