Daily Content Archive
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 The Persistence of MemorySalvador Dalí remains one of the most important painters of both the surrealist movement and the 20th century. Influenced by Freud's psychoanalytic theories and dream studies, he developed a repertoire of striking, dreamlike, distorted images in a style he termed "hand-painted dream photographs." Completed in 1931, The Persistence of Memory is Dalí's most famous work. It depicts four soft, melting pocket watches. How is this imagery generally interpreted? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Black Tuesday (1929)In the 1920s, the US stock market expanded rapidly and reached a peak in August 1929, when prices began to decline while speculation increased. On October 24, "Black Thursday," a record 12,894,650 shares were traded. Banks and investment companies bought large blocks of stock to stem the panic, but on October 29, "Black Tuesday," 16 million shares were traded and prices collapsed. Why do some scholars contend that the stock market crash was not the cause of the Great Depression? More... | |
| Today's Birthday | |
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 Fanny Brice (1891)Brice was an American comedian and singer who built her act on parody and physical humor. A perennial Ziegfeld Follies star after 1910, she attained international fame with her signature torch-song parody, "My Man." Appearing in vaudeville, musicals, dramas, movies, and radio throughout her career, Brice demonstrated that a woman could succeed in entertainment without exploiting her sexuality or making a fool of herself or other women. What Broadway musical was based on her life? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.Washington Irving (1783-1859) | |
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have nothing to do— To have no tasks or actions that one must complete or undertake; to have nothing with which to occupy one's time. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 World Creole Music Festival (2016)Creole music, language, and culture are sources of national pride for the island nation of Dominica, as they are for peoples throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and other regions where Creoles have settled. The World Creole Music Festival is a three-day event showcasing this distinctive music and culture, held in Dominica's capital city, Roseau, as well as other cities on the island. The festival has brought attention to a diverse set of musical genres that are directly or indirectly associated with Creole music, including cadence-lypso, zouk, soukous, bouyon, and zydeco. More... | |
| In the News | |
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What Einstein Got Wrong About the Speed of LightIf you want to play in the quantum sandbox, you have to accept some bizarre rules. You have to accept that a single thing can exist in two states at once—alive and dead, black and white—until it's observed or measured in some way, at which point it ... More... | |