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America’s Rivers
The US Geological Survey estimates there are 250,000 rivers across the United States. These rivers travel more than 3.5 million miles through the continental USA, Alaska and Hawaii. More than 80% of Americans live within a mile of these rivers, which are used for irrigation, transportation, drinking water, electrical power, recreation and other purposes. Many…
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Finnish Art: The Brothers von Wright in between Art and Science
By Francesca Lungarotti ‘Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary’ Blaise Pascal Magnus, Wilhelm, and Ferdinand von Wright are key figures in the history of science and culture in 19th-century Finland and Sweden, and are deeply rooted in the Finnish national imagination. They are sometimes considered the same person, although…
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Collection Spotlight: Sovfoto/Eastfoto
UIG contributing partner Sovfoto/Eastfoto has long been considered one of the West’s most comprehensive sources of historical and documentary photography from Russia, the former Soviet Republics, Eastern Europe, and China. The extensive archive covers historical events and notable people, cultural heritage, industry, geography and political content from the Russian Revolution through the fall of the Berlin…
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Ellis Island, The Immigrant’s Gateway to America
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”. So reads the inscription on the Statue of Liberty from Emma Lazarus’ 1883 sonnet “The New Colossus”. While Lady Liberty…
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Artists in Search of Simplicity: 150th years since the Birth of Sculptor Constantin Brancusi
by Francesca Lungarotti There’s an important element that unites some of the most famous names in the 20th-century art scene: simplicity. This element exemplifies a return to origins, a return to purity and to lines that require no detail but are capable of expressing everything with less. Rodin, Picasso, and Modigliani have played a key…
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James Farmer: Civil Rights Hero
“I don’t see any future for the nation without integration. Our lives are intertwined, our work is intertwined, our education is intertwined.” – James Farmer During February in the United States, we recall the countless contributions to our country by African-Americans. First established by President Gerald Ford in 1976, Black History Month aims to celebrate the…
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