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Nighthawks, Hopper
Nighthawks; 1942 (120 Kb); Oil on canvas, 30 x 60 in; The Art Institute of Chicago. Paintings such as Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago, 1942) convey a mood of lonelin... |
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali has undoubtedly been a fixture in world culture since the 1960's. Seizing the gold medal at the Olympics in 1960, battling George Foreman in "The Rumble in... |
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE is a British singer, musician and songwriter, who first came to prominence as a member of The Beatles. Recognised as a top musical icon of t... |
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Stephen Hawking, Physicist
Stephen William Hawking is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and... |
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Victory Boogie Woogie, Mondrian
At the time of Mondrian’s fairly sudden death in early 1944 at the age of seventy-two, Victory Boogie Woogie was still unfinished. The lozenge-shaped painting was covered... |
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Manhattan Project, Development Atomic Bomb
The Manhattan Project was the project, conducted during World War II primarily by the United States, to develop the first atomic bomb. Formally designated as the Manhatta... |
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Le Petit Prince, de Saint-Exupéry
'Le petit prince' is a fabulous book that talks about a little prince that loves his planet and takes the advice of his flower which seems to him the most beautiful rose.... |
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Charles H. Bennett, Physicist
In 1993 Bennett and Brassard, in collaboration with Claude Crepeau, Richard Jozsa, Asher Peres, and William Wootters, discovered "quantum teleportation," an effect in whi... |
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An Interrupted Life, Hillesum
Hillesum was in her mid-20s at the time of the Holocaust; her diaries consist mainly of musings about the confusion, perplexities, and struggles all around her and mature... |
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Jazz Icarus, Matisse
Henri Matisse began using cut out shapes, pure colour and srong patterns as compositional tools; this comes across beautifully in Jazz Icarus, a piece from his Jazz serie... |
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger dropped out of the London School of Economics to be a rock star. The Rolling Stones began recording in 1963, and by 1965 they had an internation... |
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Rem Koolhaas, Architect
In 1975, Koolhaas founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in London with Madelon Vriesendorm and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis. Focusing on contemporary design, t... |
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D-Day, June 6 : The Normandy Invasion
May 1944 had been the time chosen at Washington in May 1943 for the invasion. Difficulties in assembling landing craft forced a postponement until June, but Jun... |
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Larry Ellison, Founder Oracle
The founder of Oracle is one of the most flamboyant and outspoken businessmen of the century, not to mention one of the richest, with a net worth somewhere north of $50 b... |
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UNESCO
UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was born on November 16, 1945. For this specialized UN agency, it is not enough to build cla... |
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