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When Greta Pratt photographed the annual meeting of the Association of Lincoln Presenters in 2004, she plunked a chair down in a field for attendees to sit in and told them, “I want you to summon up your inner Lincoln.”
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John Wilkes Booth was 26 years old when he shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC 150 years ago today.
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Save for his unusual name, Ralph Eugene Meatyard had all the trappings of an ordinary man.
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One benefit of digitization is the return to the public, if only virtually, of religious and cultural artifacts often long hidden in the collections of institutions far from their regions of origin.
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It's fun to imagine what an archaeologist of the future might make of the found notes — including shopping lists, personal reflections, and angry scribbles — currently on view at Stour Space Gallery in London.
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In recent years, the skyscraper has come to be seen as the architectural symbol of globalization.
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"You can't be friends with a squirrel — a squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit," Sarah Jessica Parker once quipped. Obviously she had never encountered Tommy Tucker.
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During the late Renaissance, many gold-thirsty European explorers set sail on a quest to locate the fastest route to the Orient.
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Sister Corita Kent's tenacity as a feminist, civil rights activist, and antiwar demonstrator belied her prim black habit and fueled the silkscreens she made up until her death in 1986.
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Considering how long the earth's been around, you'd think it would have already been exhaustively charted. But in recent years, mapmaking has exploded.
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Curator Tim Wride was surprised when he first visited the Florida Everglades a few years ago.
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Experiencing Paula Hayes’s Gazing Globes in Madison Square Park is recommended for after sunset, when the spheres are illuminated in the night like crystal balls of divination.