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Comics is a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information. Comics frequently…

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Anime

Anime is a Japanese term for hand-drawn or computer animation. The word is the abbreviated pronunciation of "animation" in Japanese,…

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Illustration

An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in published…

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Chess Collection of World Chess Hall of Fame

Inspired by the natural world, "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Natural Splendors from the Chess Collection of Dr. George & Vivian Dean"…

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Indigenous Woven Caps of Northern California, Wyoming State Museum

What's in the name? Twined, double twined? Bowl shaped, Crown center natural tan; decorated overall yellow & brown overlay. Design:…

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Piazza di Spagna, Birthplace of musical performance, Italian Youth Committee UNESCO

Piazza di Spagna, with the staircase of Trinità dei Monti, is one of the most famous squares in Rome. It…

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Chess During World War II, World Chess Hall of Fame

“Battle on the Board: Chess During World War II” highlights artifacts, stories, and imagery related to how chess aided service…

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Saving Wilton’s Music Hall

Wilton's produces imaginative, distinctive work that has roots in the early music hall tradition but reinterpreted for an audience of…

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Festa del Redentore, Celebrating the end of the plague, Italian Youth Committee UNESCO

The best party in Venice is the 440-year-old Festa del Redentore. Every year a remarkable 25,000 fireworks explode over Serenissima,…

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Fashion in the Ringstrasse era, Wien Museum Karlsplatz

When sophisticated Viennese society kitted itself out with a new wardrobe, Tall, stiff collars characterize the period, as do women's…

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