Sebastian Smee The Washington Post
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Most Stirring Photo From Apollo Mission Wasn't Of The Moon...
The most important visual image associated with the moon landing of July 20, 1969, was not any picture of the landing itself. It was the photograph taken on Christmas Eve the previous year, 1968, when William Anders, an astronaut aboard Apollo 8, photographed the Earth.
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Century After Grandfather's School Expulsion, Harvard Teacher Fights Bias
In 1926, Sarah Lewis's grandfather, Shadrach Emmanuel Lee, was expelled from a Brooklyn public high school for asking why black people were not in his history textbook. His teacher told him African Americans had done nothing worthy of being included.
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Black Hole Image Is Beautiful and Profound, but It Doesn't Tell Us Much
We yearn, as humans, to increase our knowledge, and a day like today - an image like this one - briefly satisfies that yearning.
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Banksy Painting That Shredded Itself After Sale May Become More Valuable
"Girl With Balloon" had just sold for $1.4 million when an alarm sounded in the auction room. The canvas then began sliding down inside its frame, emerging at the bottom in strips, having been shredded by a remote-control mechanism on the back of the frame.
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Most Stirring Photo From Apollo Mission Wasn't Of The Moon...
The most important visual image associated with the moon landing of July 20, 1969, was not any picture of the landing itself. It was the photograph taken on Christmas Eve the previous year, 1968, when William Anders, an astronaut aboard Apollo 8, photographed the Earth.
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Century After Grandfather's School Expulsion, Harvard Teacher Fights Bias
In 1926, Sarah Lewis's grandfather, Shadrach Emmanuel Lee, was expelled from a Brooklyn public high school for asking why black people were not in his history textbook. His teacher told him African Americans had done nothing worthy of being included.
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Black Hole Image Is Beautiful and Profound, but It Doesn't Tell Us Much
We yearn, as humans, to increase our knowledge, and a day like today - an image like this one - briefly satisfies that yearning.
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Banksy Painting That Shredded Itself After Sale May Become More Valuable
"Girl With Balloon" had just sold for $1.4 million when an alarm sounded in the auction room. The canvas then began sliding down inside its frame, emerging at the bottom in strips, having been shredded by a remote-control mechanism on the back of the frame.
