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At the 1893 World's Fair she exhibited her salt-glazed ware [2] and won nine awards for sets of her works. [3] [6] She won other medals at exhibitions in Europe and the United States in the 1880s and 1890s. [3] Margherita of Savoy, the Italian queen congratulated her via letter to her good works and arranged for Frackelton to present her works ...
Irreplaceable art works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Goya and M.C. Escher are among those feared lost after a fire swept through a Seattle art gallery on Friday, the gallery’s manager told CNN.
Ordeal by fire (Persian: ور) was also used for judiciary purposes in ancient Iran. Persons accused of cheating in contracts or lying might be asked to prove their innocence by ordeal of fire as an ultimate test. Two examples of such an ordeal include the accused having to pass through fire, or having molten metal poured on their chest.
In 1933, Nazis burned works of Jewish authors, and other works considered "un-German", at the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin. The works of some Jewish authors and other so-called "degenerate" books were burned by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s.
The fire was on the opposite side of the large complex from The Courtauld Gallery that features works such as Vincent Van Gogh's “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear” and “The Descent From The ...
Fireworks light up the sky at the scene of a Massachusetts house fire in which two homes were destroyed just days before Christmas. Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY.
The fire caused 602 deaths and 250 non-fatal injuries. [1] It ranks as the worst theater fire in the United States, surpassing the carnage of the Brooklyn Theatre fire of 1876, which claimed at least 278 lives. [2] For nearly a century, the Iroquois Theatre fire was the deadliest single-building disaster in American history. [3]
The city Department of Education is so intent on firing a disabled teacher that it went to court two days before Christmas to terminate him. Abraham Freud, who worked as a DOE special-ed teacher ...