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The 70-year-old has been prosecuted for his artworks under a law that did not exist when they were created. He should be freed Sixty years ago, Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution – a decade of fanaticism that consumed China. Perhaps 2 million people, from top leaders to impoverished farmers, were killed or driven to suicide for political “crimes” or their family background. Tens of milli…

Dr Tim Causer invites readers to help complete a transcription project and to explore the writings and correspondence of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham Your article on the digitisation and transcription of German love letters is a wonderful reminder of both the goodwill of the crowd and the pleasures of archival research ( Sixty thousand love letters and counting: volunteers help sif…

President Trump's name has been removed from the Kennedy Center's website and is supposed to come off the building, too. But serious damage has been done.

Ioannina is a beautiful Greek city located on the shores of Lake Pamvotis. The history of Ioannina begins in pre-historic times and continues to this day. Inside the lake is an island, the largest lake island in Greece and one of the few inhabited in Europe. The island has no-name, simply called the Island (=Nissaki in Greek). From the 13 th to the 15 th century, prominent Byzantine families foun…

Before the sale of the landmark hotel closed, Kelly Roberts removed two beloved paintings that had been a part of the property for more than a century.

BackgroundMenarche is a key developmental milestone for adolescent girls, yet in many Muslim-majority rural settings it occurs within strong norms of modesty and silence. Although prior research has identified gaps in menstrual knowledge and hygiene, limited evidence explains how Islamic modesty norms and mother–daughter communication jointly influence menstrual readiness during the early transit…

At first, they laughed. Then they scoffed. Finally, they accused him of witchcraft. The Cherokee silversmith named Sequoyah had spent years scratching strange marks on paper. In 1821, his fellow tribespeople, disturbed by his obsession, put him on trial for practicing black magic. Sequoyah insisted his invention would allow Cherokee speakers to write out Iroquoian language for the first time. To …

Suryansh Bisht, Law College Dehradun Ms. Purnima Tyagi, Law College Dehradun ABSTRACT Language is an essential component of cultural identity and constitutional pluralism in India. The Himalayan regional languages of Garhwali, Kumaoni, and Jaunsari represent rich linguistic traditions of Uttarakhand, yet they face gradual decline due to migration, urbanization, dominance of Hindi and English, and…

In an age of spiritual isolation, witches are forming covens that defy the oppressive natures of man and church On the floor of a sun-drenched room in a 200-year-old Irish estate, a group of 15 witches gather to commune with the spirits. Everyone has someone they want to talk to – dead ancestors, forest fairies, the witches who came before them – and the room has the same expectant charge as the …

The festival founded by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies hits its 50th edition this midsummer and continues to connect culture and community. Also this week – is 432Hz the magic number? This midsummer will be the 50th St Magnus festival . Founded in Orkney in 1977 by the composer Peter Maxwell Davies , who had recently moved there, and the poet George Mackay Brown, who rarely left the archipelago, that h…

In this week's episode of "The De Los Podcast" Cypress Hill MC Sen Dog talked about his upcoming documentary about his Cuban roots, plus touched on how growing up in L.A. informed his music taste and how he moved within hip-hop circles.

The Huntington will celebrate the United States' 250th anniversary with "This Land Is...," a retrospective exhibition that examines American identities over time.

A new analysis of 2,000-year-old skeletons found in northern Scotland has revealed an unusual funeral ritual involving the manipulation of dead bodies.

For generations, conjunto music has filled dance halls, family gatherings and neighborhood stages across Texas and the borderlands. Now, “Puro Conjunto: Border(less) Sound,” a new exhibit opening June 11 at the Institute of Texan Cultures, will explore the people, instruments and stories behind the soundtrack of those communities. Through rare artifact loans, community partnerships, archival […] …

Had Century III Mall in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania not closed seven years ago, the shopping center — the third-largest in the world when it opened, with 200 tenants — would be approaching its 50th anniversary. Anchored by defunct local department store chains, including Joseph Horne Company, Gimbels, and Kaufmann’s, Century III had been constructed atop a slag heap — a mound of metallic industria…

St Georges Guildhall in King's Lynn, Norfolk , England was built around 1420 as a guildhall for a religious fellowship (not to be confused with merchant and craft  guilds which served a different  purpose) in King's Lynn. Religious guilds and the closely related chantries were dissolved by Edward  VI in 1547 at which time the guildhall became the property of Lynn Corporation (the dissolution was …

There are striking differences between the classic description of the scapegoat ritual found in Leviticus 16 and later renderings of this rite in rabbinic and early Christian authors. For instance, several enigmatic additions to the Levitical blueprint of the scapegoat ritual appear in later interpretations of this rite found in mishnaic, targumic, and talmudic accounts, especially in the descrip…

Accounts of Jesus’s baptism found in the synoptic gospels reveal some sim- ilarities with Jewish biblical theophanies, including the one found in the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel

A centuries-old Egyptian artifact has revealed a hidden handprint that survived thousands of years untouched.

The symposium officially launched the IIR’s new strength in arts, culture, and storytelling, which complements its longtime focus on the gathering and dissemination of quantitative data about immigrant contributions to the United States.