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3 years ago
Foo Fighters Perform āBack in Blackā with AC/DCās Brian Johnson: When Live Music Returns
At Saturdayās benefit concert, āVax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World,ā the Foo Fighters took the stage and performed āBack in Blackā with AC/DCās Brian Johnson. Itās a tantalizing taste of the w...
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- 10-05-2021
Kampa Dzong, Tibet, by John C. White, 1904.ā£
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Kampa Dzong, whose name is also spelt as Khampa, Kamba and Gamba, is a Tibetan town north of Sikkim. It is the headequarters Kamba County. It has a histo... View More
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Kampa Dzong, whose name is also spelt as Khampa, Kamba and Gamba, is a Tibetan town north of Sikkim. It is the headequarters Kamba County. It has a histo... View More
Watch the Most Expensive Scene in Silent Film History: The Train Wreck From Buster Keaton āThe Generalā (1926)
Were it filmed today, the set piece of Buster KeatonāsĀ The GeneralĀ (watch it online here) would surely be computer generated. The studio would insist upon that. We like to thinkĀ Keaton, who both direc...
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King Edward VI's excerpts from philosophers,1548-1549, Arundel MS 510. Images: f. 3r & 3v - Sententiae ex Tusculanis Quaestionibus Ciceronis excerptae.
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David Hockney Shows Us His Sketch Book, Page by Page
Still working and exhibiting in his eighties, and indeed seeming to grow more and more productive with age, David Hockney has become a living symbol of what it is to live as an artist.
Mariposa Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley, California, 1872 https://wikiart.org/en/albert-bierstadt/mariposa-indian-encampment-yosemite-valley-california #bierstadt #albertbierstadt
Who Invented Heavy Metal Music?: A Search for Origins
Where exactly did āheavy metalā start?
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The Danube: connecting Europe. Visit our new exhibition & join a journey into the past, showcasing historical collections on the River Danube, explored as both a border and a link, as a space of yearn... View More
The Danube: connecting Europe
Explore the River Danube, which has inspired musicians, artists, engineers and holders of political and military power for centuries.
4 years ago
Piazza San Marco with the Basilica, 1730 https://www.wikiart.org/en/canaletto/piazza-san-marco-with-the-basilica-1730 #wikiart #canaletto
Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in AdversityāA Free 24-Lecture Course
The Great Courses has made available a free and rather timely course--Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity. Divided into 24 lectures and taught by Molly Birkholm, the course gets int...
Watch Florian Schneider (RIP) in Classic Early Kraftwerk Performances
The seventies, am I rightā¦.? Not that I can claim to have experienced it firsthand. But if I could have been a witness to any period in pop history it would have been the decade in which experimental ...
Star Trek: World-Building Over GenerationsāPretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #42
The world-wide Tribble infestation and Star Trek:
5 years ago
The Artistry of the Mentally Ill: The 1922 Book That Published the Fascinating Work of Schizophrenic Patients, and Influenced Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky & Other Avant Garde Artists
Itās an enduring irony of art history: artists whose work has come to define high culture are often characterized by various mental health issues.
Why Knights Fought Snails in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts
The snail may leave a trail of slime behind him, but a little slime will do a man no harm... whilst if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn. - George R. R. Martin, The Mystery Knight
As any...
Star Trekās Nichelle Nichols Creates a Short Film for NASA to Recruit New Astronauts (1977)
Imagine growing up in the late 1960s, witnessing at an impressionable age the heyday of the originalĀ Star TrekĀ followed by the real-life moon landing.
āGonzoā Defined by Hunter S. Thompsonās Personal Copy of the Random House Dictionary
via The Hunter S. Thompson Facebook Page Related Content: How Hunter S. Thompson Gave Birth to Gonzo Journalism: Short Film Revisits Thompsonās Seminal 1970 Piece on the Kentucky Derby Hunter S.