Tamara de Lempicka is having a banner year, which is rather remarkable considering she died 44 years ago. Along with a retrospective art exhibition at the de Young Museum, a new documentary fully ...
These Men Risked Their Lives to Build 1920s New York Skyscrapers The skyscrapers of Manhattan needed a new, bolder type of construction worker. They got them in 'roughnecks' – hardened men who ...
"Abe Lincoln's few schooldays were spent at a 'blab school': that is, one in which the children 'read out,' Chinese fashion, at the tops of their voices." "Many politicians and some students have ...