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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Shire must be brought to heel
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Who Was George Eliot?
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
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The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
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Weekend Roundup
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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Do people actually disagree that much?
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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What’s the History of Gin?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
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The Birth of Ovid
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Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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