I鈥檝e long been intrigued by the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. The magnificent building was constructed of 60,000 panes of glass, ten times as many as in the windows of the Empire State...
Although I could get straight to the point and tell you about Persian carpets, it鈥檚 only fitting to begin with a bit of history about the Persian Empire. Cyrus the Great, who reigned from...
Genghis Khan is more legend than man. We鈥檙e not even sure when he was born: historians agree it鈥檚 somewhere in the decade that spans 1155 and 1167. That birth has itself been mythologized. Stories...
The 1993 Academy Award for costume design went to Eiko Ishioka for creating the magnificent costumes in the hit film, 鈥淏ram Stoker鈥檚 Dracula.鈥� Particularly stunning were the dresses worn by Wynona...
It started with the Helen Keller jokes. You could call it an unfortunate revival. Over forty years ago and following the broadcast of聽The Miracle Worker,聽jokes about Helen Keller became mainstream.
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