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Sit back and enjoy the heyday of cinema and going to watch a film. This week on April 2nd over 120 years ago in 1902, Tally’s Electric Theater opened – it was the first permanent movie theater in Los Angeles, with the Hollywood district of the city soon to become central to film-making and cinema around…
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Women ‘March’ing into STEM
Encouraging young girls to pursue careers in STEM fields March is Expanding Girls’ Horizons in Science and Engineering Month, started by the Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Network, founded in 1974 in USA. The initiative is all about helping young girls develop more interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) throughout their educational careers. The…
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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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