Known for his show the Joy of Painting, Bob Ross was and continues to be one of America's most widely beloved art teachers.
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Deborah Griscom Passmore was an accomplished illustrator who came to lead the USDA’s staff of artists in the Department of Pomology.
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One of the scientists whose name we’ve come to know is June Almeida, the Scottish virologist who was the first to capture images of human coronaviruses, as well as the rubella virus.
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Though she created the sanitary belt in the 1920s, the revolutionary product did not go into use for 30 more years due to the marketing company’s disinterest when they learned the inventor was black.
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Reed Morano is an extraordinary figure in the world of film and television.
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Fashion & Beauty Podcasts for the Modern Woman
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The word cult has a connotation of all dressing alike and living out in the woods, potentially culminating in something like Jim Jones and the Peoples’ Temple or maybe Heaven’s Gate. Certainly not something that we could ever fall into ourselves…
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. Horchata de chufa originated in North Africa around 2400 B.C, and with the Roman conquest of Egypt, the drink was dubbed “hordeata.”
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Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is a global artistic force. Even if you’re not an art world enthusiast, you recognize his designs from the album covers for Kanye West’s Graduation and Kid Cudi’s Kids See Ghosts and the music video for Billie Eilish’s you should see me in a crown.
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Toni Morrison passed away this past week at the age of 88. The first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature, she was considered one of the great American authors and her work was pivotal in the depiction of black women’s lives.
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The concept is a way of understanding duality, paradox, balance, and harmony by working to understand how two halves make up a whole.
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As an ex-evangelical Christian, I’m one among the growing numbers of Americans leaving the church. The reasons aren’t surprising.
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William Henry Johnson is a quintessential American painter whose work was almost lost to obscurity. His paintings traversed movements. He was a part of the Harlem Renaissance and he has been described as an Expressionist, an Impressionist, a Cubist and as a folk artist.
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Tarot reading has been experiencing a recent surge in popularity, but long before the Wild Unknown deck began gracing Instagram feeds, and even before it was used as a tool for divination, tarot decks where used by European nobility simply to play card games.
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Jenna Perry* was fresh out of college and looking for her first teaching job. She applied for a job teaching at a charter school. She was surprised and grateful to be hired on as an assistant dean of students.
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At only 37, she’d written and published prolifically about Christian culture and theology. She was distinct from the many other evangelical megastars; though she started a church plant and traveled the country to speak, she wasn’t leading a cult of personality, pushing ever more stringent codes of propriety and she wasn’t quite the prototypical evangelical either.
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Politics can be emotionally difficult. Seeing the consequences of policies and rhetoric on vulnerable people is disheartening. In a more intimate sense, it can also be demoralizing to realize the people you considered your friends don’t have the same empathy for people who are affected. It can make you feel crazy to feel like you’re the only person you know who cares.
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Mancala is so old its precise origins are unknown, but the most reliable evidence exists for mancala having been played 3,600 years ago in Ancient Sudan or Ghana.
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Nellie Bly kicked off her writing career at the age of 20 when she wrote a letter to the editor of the Pittsburg Dispatch. Her response to a column about how women were only capable of doing housework earned Bly her first writing job.
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I know I’m not the only one who’s wondered about origins of the increasingly ubiquitous holiday, so why “420”?
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