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Working with rigid materials such as metal all the while wanting to capture a geometric and “free-floating” feeling was the ultimate goal. I wanted to make a complete, cohesive mix-and-match set. Each piece has elements that tie with the rest of the…

An anti-Vietnam War march down Massachusetts street, Oct. 25

University of Kansas Student Protests_ Anti-Vietnam War.jpg

An attack on "Cato's letters," in a letter of 24 November [1721] from Thomas Gordon, one of their editors, to their other editor, John Trenchard. Part of the Trenchard-Simpson correspondence.

An empress throws herself into the flames

In a famous scene illustrated in the Ming dynasty Illustrated Biographies of Exemplary Women, the daughter of the Han dynasty usurper, Wang Mang, throws herself into the flames. Before he usurped the throne, Wang Mang married his daughter to the Han…

Tags: East Asian, Han dynasty, Wang Mang

An English Lady: An anonymous manuscript travel-diary, a detailed account of the sights, costumes, social services, village and town life, war aftermath, travel mishaps in Russia and Poland. MS B144

Notes From Underground... If you're interested in matters Polish and Russian or in travels in Slavic lands and in sights seen through western eyes AND if you can read this page from the manuscript diary of an Englishwoman traveling in the summer of…