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Before he became infamous, Adolf Hitler tried to make it as an artist. This video explores a rare private collection of his ...
In 1930, Tagore gifted five of his artworks—vibrant paintings of birds, humans, and a girl in a red robe—to a leading Berlin museum. The collection was part of a larger European exhibition showcasing ...
Adolf Hitler swore by a vegetarian diet, supposedly. Here's the full history on how and why the Führer refused to eat animal meat.
I wasn’t exactly sure what the message these letters held, but they spoke to me. Letter from Avram to Danielle, 1944. United ...
Unfortunately for humanity, Hitler’s paintings, which slavishly copied the styles of 19th-century artists, were mediocre, lifeless and uninspired. Twice rejected by Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts, he ...
When Daniel Radcliffe performed an a cappella version on The Graham Norton Show – prefacing it by introducing Lehrer, ...
A century after his birth in Castle Island, many words of the legendary Kerry sportswriter are still fondly recalled ...
Despite the flash flood, Union Pool is packed on Thursday night for John Maus’ sold-out show. It’s his first New York ...
The Weimar physician advocated for a more fluid understanding of sexuality and gender—a pioneering idea that was erased by ...
Most of us know Ed Sullivan as, well, Ed Sullivan—the legendary host of “The Ed Sullivan Show,” which ran from 1948 to 1971.
An imposing portrait of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin greets visitors to San Rafael’s Museum of International Propaganda. The founder ...
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July 29, USS Forrestal accident

On July 29, 1967, an accidental rocket launch on the deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a fire and explosions that killed 134 service members. In 1836, the newly ...