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  • September 16, 2020

    Theo Jansen: Kinetics, Art and Strandbeest Aliens Invade Europe

    Dutch physics and art student, Theo Jansen, nearly started a riot with a helium-powered “UFO” art project. Today, Jansen’s Strandbeest sculptures stun audiences around the world.

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  • September 10, 2020

    Lewis Carroll Guides Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

    Lewis Carroll created the story for Alice in Wonderland on a River Thames boat ride near Oxford, in which a bored young girl Alice (named after Alice Liddell, another passenger on the boat) falls down a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures.

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  • August 26, 2020

    Stealing the Mona Lisa

    The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, where the painting hung in relative obscurity in a backwater wing of the museum. Picasso was accused, Napoleon was accused, but Vincenzo Perugia was caught for stealing the mona lisa.

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