In 2003, psychology professor and sex researcher J. Michael Bailey published a book entitled The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and
The true story of the meteorological conditions that created the "Storm of the Century" and the impact the Perfect Storm had on many of the people caught in its path; chiefly, among these are the six crew members of the swordfish boat the Andrea Gail, all of whom were lost 500 miles fr...
She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004—the first woman to do so—and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her buildings are distinctively neofuturistic, characterised by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures" with "multiple perspective points and fragmented...
It was Dr. Frank who would grow up and during the second half of his life, would plant one of the very first wineries in the New York’s Finger Lakes.Although he didn't plant the first Finger Lakes vineyard or even open the first Finger Lakes winery, Dr. Frank certainly was a ...
American Girls Art Club in Paris founder Margie White, standing in front of 4rue St. Petersbourg, the location of Manet’s studio in the 1870s. A close up of the door to Manet’s studio. He is said to have rented the studio on the first floor because of the pain in his leg and...
Joan Miró:Painter, print-maker, collage artist, and sculptor Joan Miró (1893–1983) created brightly colored, biomorphic shapes that seemed to bubble up from the imagination. Miró used doodling and automatic drawing to spark his creativity, but his works were carefully composed. He exhibited wi...
The ball was nothing less than incredible. It was held at a natural history center and our entry way led under rows of blue colored, glowing archways into a photo booth area. A photograph was taken of you in your masquerade finery, and printed right there! My photo was incredibly unflatte...
Her fifteen year old son was also lynched at the same time but I could not find a photo of her son. The photograph of Nelson was drawn from a postcard. Authorities accused her of killing a deputy sheriff who supposedly stumbled on some stolen goods in her house. Why they lynched her...
In the center of the first page she had cellophane-taped a caption from a 1950’s local newspaper photograph: “I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved: the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.”— George Eliot ...
Like St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo is typically an excuse we gringos use to get hammered, but there's so much more to the day.First off, Cinco de Mayo is NOT Mexican Independence Day. That day is actually September 16th, annually....