Creative writing

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Just thought you might like to see this

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Wow....

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Horn-shaped cup with dragon handle, carved from a piece of white jade. China, Han Dynasty, 200 BC - 200 AD

Henryck Górecki’s Symphony No. 3.

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Górecki, a Polish composer, called his 1976 third symphony “The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.” Each movement features a solo soprano sin...

Avdotia Ilyinichna Istomina

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Avdotia Ilyinichna Istomina (1799–1848) was the most celebrated Imperial Russian ballerina of the 19th century. Orphaned at a youn...

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Lee Morgan in New York, 1971 Photo Val Wilmer Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and co...

Thomas Müller (https://artaxis.org/thomas-muller/)

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Thomas Müller is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and spent his childho...

A sculpture titled ‘Water Water (Abstract Glass Cooper Wall Art sculpture)’ by sculptor Paul Hardcastle.

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In November of 2018, this painting sold for $92 million

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Chop Suey, 1929, Edward Hopper. In a bibliography by Gail Levin, the location of Chop Suey is described, “…the setting recalled the i...

The literary set

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John F. Kennedy, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams shooting clays Hemingway in Africa

Black and white film

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Photo taken by Alberto Ferreira, named “Feet before feet” on April 21, 1960.

Hapless

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You know where the word “hapless” comes from? Some of it is from the old Norse work     “happ” meaning good luck and the old English word...

Zephyrus is the Greek god of the west wind. The Zephyrus eventually evolved into zephyr, a word for a breeze that is westerly or gentle, or both.

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Four amazing astronomical discoveries from ancient Greece

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Attic white-ground lekythos depicting a fallow deer.  Artist unknown; ca. 540-525 BCE.  Found at the ancient city of Ialysos, Rhodes;...

In Our Time. A short story by Ernest Hemingway

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chapter 1 Everybody was drunk. The whole battery was drunk going along the road in the dark. We were going to the Champagne. The lie...

True story:

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True story: In 1970 some political anti-war radical decided to break into a draft board office in Delaware. However the interior door...

I hate it when that happens....is that the Cookie Monster?

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be a poem

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When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a pai...

Jutta Deutschland

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Beethoven - Grosse Fuge

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   One of the last pieces Beethoven wrote for string quartet and also one of his celebrated late quartets. It’s a one-movement experiment...

Lionel Hampton

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Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton...

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau

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(Edited from Wikipedia)  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( July 5 1889 – October 11 1963) was a French poet, playwright, ...

Cumbrously:

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  Cumbrously: In an awkward or ponderous manner. From Old French encombrer (to hinder), from combre (dam). Earliest documented use: 1401....