watercolor left incomplete by the subject's death

Tipu's Tiger or Tippu's Tiger is an eighteenth-century automaton or mechanical toy created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger savaging a near life-size European man. Mechanisms…

miracle fruit, causes sour foods to taste sweet

1990 heist in London

Timur (Chagatay: تيمور Temür, lit. 'Iron'; 9 April 1336 – 17–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī (Chagatay: تيمور کورگن Temür Küregen), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia…

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In 1940, Giuseppe accepted to become the Venice rabbi and guide the Jewish community in such hard, disturbing, and dangerous times.

Qian Xuesen, or Hsue-Shen Tsien (Chinese: 钱学森; 11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009), was a Chinese mathematician, cyberneticist, aerospace engineer, and physicist who made significant contributions to the field of aerodynamics and established engineering cybernetics.…

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The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year. A completed version dated 1792 by Franz Xaver…

In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom practised by ...

A full cast and crew reunion at L.A.'s New Beverly Cinema uncovers the scene that was destroyed, how the franchise nearly didn't happen and what inspired it

1993 film by Buck Adams

indigenous group originating from Bajau island in Anambas Islands Regency, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia

Beetle Bailey is celebrating 70 years. (Courtesy of King Features) DOVER — Our old friend, Beetle Bailey, has been aggravating Sarge and napping on newspaper comics pages for a long, long …

meeting to elect a pope

People in antiquity managed to stay cool in hot and dry climates inventing the geothermal cooling, the fan, evaporating water and catching winds - see more...

Soldier, ruler and coup leader, this Doge had it all - until he lost it. Read the story of Marino Faliero, the 55th Doge of Venice.

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