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 | Culture Global culture, including music, art, film, music, the producers and the consumers, this is our entertainment section. | |
| | | | | | Art + Sex: Lace Panties, White Cube (aka: Naked in the Museum) by Lilika Ruby Before I went to Art School, I went to the Kemper Museum. Hanging in one of the two main galleries was a group photography exhibit. I remember one photograph quite clearly. It was on the far wall - a temporary, movable wall, which you'll later see... | | | | The Mona Lisa Stolen by The Ovi Team 21st Aug. 1911: The Mona Lisa, the famous portrait by Leonardo da Vinci also called (La Gioconda) (painted between 1503 - 1506), was stolen today from the Louvre in Paris. The Painting was stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia an employee of the Louvre who believed | | | | First Commercial Radio Station by The Ovi Team 20th August 1920; the first commercial radio station begins operating in Detroit, Michigan with call sign 8MK (Now WWJ (News radio 950)). The radio station was started by The Detroit News newspaper and is now owned and run by CBS. | |
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| | | The Beatles Replace Pete Best by The Ovi Team 17th Aug. 1962; The Beatles consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison replace the group's drummer "Pete Best" with Ringo Starr. | | | | H. Helmy Gallery by H. Helmy H. Helmy began painting when his niece and nephew asked him how a graphic he had designed on the computer would look on canvas. | | | | Cocoons and fibers - Eye floaters as a source of inspiration for Carlos Castaneda? by Floco Tausin The anthropologist and cult writer Carlos Castaneda (CC) has substantially contributed to the emergence of a Western New Age shamanism. From the 1960s until his death in April 1998, CC published more than ten books, all of which he declared as anthropolog | | | | La Marseillaise by The Ovi Team 14th July 1795; "La Marseillaise" - "The song of Marseille" becomes the national anthem of France. It was written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792 and adopted in 1795 as the nation's first anthem. It is also the first example of | | | | Live Aid Concert by The Ovi Team 13th July 1985; The Live Aid Concert was a series of rock concerts held to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia around the world in cites including London, Philadelphia, Sydney and Moscow. The concerts attracted close to 200,000 people and using sate | | | | Writing poetry by Abigail George Inspiration comes with sweat, blood, tears, animosity; aggression. A poet can be inspired by the working classes, the middle classes, the upper classes, being undermined in some way in his job or a relationship, having grandiose ideas, being gifted and ta | | | | Pablo Neruda by The Ovi Team Pablo Neruda born July 12, 1904 (d. September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. With his works translated into many languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the grea | | | | next | | |
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