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Photographs: Photography is the strong suit of this collection with images ranging from a photo-panoramic view of Constantinople to a photo of George H.W. Bush as a senior on the Yale baseball team meeting Babe Ruth in 1948 to a photo of a traditional Chinese bride.
The Lowdown While the artifacts themselves are well-presented and engrossing, it's hard to see how this promising collection of primary sources can avoid competing with the likes of Google and Wikipedia for readers who don't need to read Genji in the original Japanese. A similar Library of...
Nearly a century ago in Paris, the world premiere of Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring” with the Ballet Russes was met with such an intense riot that the performance had to be stopped in an attempt to quell the uproar. The...
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ART AND ARCHITECTURE Nordic Museum Fantastic folk art and an amazing collection of glassware. Djurgardsvagen 6-16 (08-519-546-00; nordiskamuseet.se) St. Mark's Church, Bjorkhagen, was designed by architect Sigurd Lewerentz. He insisted that the bricks not be cut and could fit together, even though they were all...