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1 day ago · The BBC is looking for more natural history retrospectives, potential returnable series, and stealing tone and approach from other genres, such as entertainment, true crime and travelogues. The goal is to find narratives that will extend the reach of the genre. Delegates at this week’s Wildscreen Festival heard from BBC head of specialist ...
2 hours ago · History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') [1] is the systematic study and documentation of the human past. [2][3] History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and ...
1 day ago · Fyodor[ a ] Mikhailovich Dostoevsky[ b ] (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881 [ 3 ][ c ]), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, [ 4 ] as many of his works are considered ...
2 hours ago · He was the first fan in Major League Baseball history to die of injuries caused by a foul ball. [339] Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev: 29 June 1971: The Soviet cosmonauts died when their Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurized during preparations for re-entry. They are the only reported human deaths outside the Earth's ...
1 day ago · Jazz history comes to life in Corona. Louis Armstrong was one of the most recognizable entertainers in the world when he chose the working-class neighborhood of Corona, Queens to be his home in 1943. We preserve Louis and Lucille’s home, now a historic site and world-class museum.
1 day ago · On March 10, 2001, the order opened a museum in New Haven dedicated to their history. [ 177 ] [ 87 ] The 77,000 square foot building cost US$10 million to renovate. [ 177 ] It holds mosaics on loan from the Vatican and gifts from Popes, the membership application from John F. Kennedy , and a number of other items related to the history of the Knights. [ 177 ]
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1 day ago · Fowler In The News. “The wisdom and beauty of Indigenous Oaxacan culture is on view through the work of contemporary textile artists Tanya Aguiñiga and Porfirio Gutiérrez…”. READ MORE.
