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‘World War Zoos’ Review: Of Bombs and Beasts
With World War II on the horizon, animal keepers in cities around the world had to face one question: What would happen to their charges?
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Book review: David Denby profiles 4 'eminent’ Jews who profoundly changed post-WWII American culture
Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer, Leonard Bernstein. In his new book, “Eminent Jews,” David Denby profiles the rich, ...
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World War I Diary Recounting The Horrific Battle Of The Somme Found In The U.K.
A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...
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Buffalo author publishes book on Bomber Mountain crash
Hiking to the site of the 1943 military plane crash on what is now known as Bomber Mountain in 2014, Sylvia Bruner was ...
Jack hadn't been able to paint for years, although he would have loved to. In the end he just lost his creativity. He was at war with the art world
At an art dealership in the Fife town of Methil a middle-aged couple gaze reverently at the collected works on display and ...
Superman’s First Story is Suprisingly Very Different Than You Might Realize (But It’s Still Iconic)
Superman debuted in Action Comics #1 in 1938, and the Man of Steel’s first comic book story is markedly different from his image in contemporary times. Superman has consistently been acknowledged as ...
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"This book should be in every photographer's library, but then I'm biased!" Author David Young on 'A Brief History of Photography'
The book began as an appendix to another book, which was never written. Back in 2004 I thought that book should have a brief (three- or four-page) appendix on the history of photography, working on ...