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Portal:The arts/DYK/1

... that the Chase Promenade (pictured) hosted a month long Museum of Modern Ice exhibit of abstract art on a 95 by 12 feet (29.0 by 3.7 m) wall of ice called Paintings Below Zero?
... that Christopher Smart's Hymns for the Amusement of Children were finished by the author while in debtors prison and that he died before he ever received notice that the work was a success?
... that critical reception to Hogarth's Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo was so harsh the artist was forced to remove the painting from exhibition?

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Portal:The arts/DYK/2

... that Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block work, Storer House (pictured), was restored in the 1980s by Joel Silver, producer of the films Die Hard and The Matrix?
... that Swiss illustrator Albert Lindegger was responsible for murals at the headquarters of the cantonal police and the crematorium in Berne?
... that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?

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Portal:The arts/DYK/3

... that the Analatos Painter, Mesogeia Painter and Polyphemos Painter (work pictured) were early Greek vase painters of the Proto-Attic period, active between 700 and 650 BC?
... that Steven Spielberg originally cast Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo as Pumpkin in the film Memoirs of a Geisha?
... that Roujin Z is a 1991 Japanese anime film about a computerized hospital bed with its own built-in atomic power reactor?

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... that the Harris Theater (pictured) is the first new performing arts venue built in downtown Chicago, Illinois since 1929?
... that writer Robert W. Peterson, whose seminal 1970 book Only the Ball was White called attention to the overlooked history of Negro league baseball, was also a prolific writer of magazine articles for the Boy Scouts of America?
... that the Dunbar Hotel was the heart of LA's jazz scene with visits by Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong?

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Portal:The arts/DYK/5

... that Culver Randel manufactured pianos at his mill (pictured) in Florida, New York?
... that Down Among the Z Men (1952) is the only film starring all four original members of The Goons: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine?
... that Engine Co. No. 27 served a dual function as a movie location and an operating firehouse serving the Hollywood studios?

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Portal:The arts/DYK/6

... that Wrigley Square's Millennium Monument (pictured) is a near replica of a monument destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in Chicago, Illinois?
... that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1997 album Dans ma chair was certified Platinum by the SNEP?
... that rock climber Peter Harding developed the art of hanging from one hand jammed into a crack, while smoking a cigarette with the other?

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Portal:The arts/DYK/7

... that the Art Deco Montecito Apartments (pictured) had been the home of Ronald Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming a senior citizens' housing project?
... that the Skyline Towers apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota is often referred to as a "ghetto in the sky"?
... that the Japanese visual novel 5 has been described by its development team as a "noisy northern province love comedy"?

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... that one novelty of Hans Gieng's 1543 statue on the Fountain of Justice (pictured) in Berne was the portrayal of Lady Justice as blindfolded or blind?
... that in 1656, German violinist Thomas Baltzar helped premiere The Siege of Rhodes, thought to have been the first all-sung English opera?
... that the Franklin County Courthouse incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War?

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... that although the blackmouth angler is known for its ugly appearance, it is used for making agujjim (pictured), a popular Korean dish?
... that Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while filming Me and Orson Welles at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man?
... that stained glass from Judson Studios is found not only in churches, but also in Frank Lloyd Wright houses, the U.S. Capitol and the Tropicana Casino?

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Portal:The arts/DYK/10

... that the lobby of the Suffern, New York post office (pictured), features a relief depicting a semi-naked woman shooting a flaming arrow?
... that Mary Shelley's verse drama Midas is a commentary on both Ovid's Metamorphoses and Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale?
... that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis Mundy?

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Portal:The arts/DYK/11

... that the United States Class II 1804 Silver Dollar (pictured) is alleged to have been struck over a Swiss Shooting Thaler?
... that a heckling comb is used when hand processing flax to comb out and clean the fibers?
... that between 1970 and 1984 the WE Seal of approval program aided in an estimated US$100,000 in restitution being made to collectors of comics and other memorabilia victimized by mail fraud?

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... that one theory that explains why virginal (pictured) was so called is that the keyboard instrument was thought to sound like the voice of a young girl?
... that Vancouver's tallest completed building has been called "the crowning achievement" of the Ukraine-born businessman Peter Wall?
... that Japanese mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha's Freshman Manga Award for his debut manga Hito Natsu no Kids Game?

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... that Albrecht Dürer's pupil Hans Springinklee is best known for his woodcuts (example pictured)?
... that the lyrics of Naer Mataron, a black metal band from Greece, are influenced by Greek mythology?
... that the Villa Medici del Trebbio was one of the first of the Medici villas outside Florence?

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... that Hebrew publisher Hayyim Selig Slonimski (pictured) was awarded the Demidov prize of 2,500 rubles in 1844 by the Russian Academy of Sciences for the invention of a calculating machine?
... that the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be financed entirely by sales of stock?
... that the 1974 film Lost in the Stars, set in apartheid-era South Africa, was actually shot in Oregon?

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Portal:The arts/DYK/15

... that the Portland Armory (pictured) in Portland, Oregon was the first building on the National Register of Historic Places to achieve a Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification?
... that the New Jersey Library Association, the oldest library organization in New Jersey, began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600?
... that British TV presenter Dermot O'Leary once played as a punt returner for the Colchester Gladiators?

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Portal:The arts/DYK/16

... that the conical step pyramids (reconstruction pictured) and circular public architecture of ancient Mexico's Teuchitlan tradition were unique in Mesoamerica?
... that in Korean cuisine, dishes made by steaming vegetables stuffed with seasoned fillings are called Seon?
... that the SC Johnson & Son-produced film To Be Alive! was the first non-theatrical production to receive an award from the New York Film Critics Circle?

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... that the architects of the Florida Tropical House (pictured), located in Beverly Shores, Indiana designed the house with Florida residents in mind?
... that Lady Elsie Mackay, socialite, actress and interior designer, died in 1928 with WWI ace Walter G. R. Hinchcliffe, attempting to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?
... that author Laura Vernon Hamner, informally known as "Miss Amarillo", lived over thirty years in an Amarillo, Texas hotel?

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Portal:The arts/DYK/18

... that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the Hollywood Studio Club (pictured)?
... that Circle of Chalk, a Yuan Dynasty play, is still being performed in European versions set in 14th-century China, Soviet Georgia and East Germany?
... that Penelope Boothby was painted by Henry Fuseli and sculpted by Thomas Banks, as well as being the subject of a book of poetry by her grieving father Sir Brooke Boothby, Bt?

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... that dried teasel pods (pictured) were used to raise the nap on woolen fabrics?
... that Barbette, a female impersonator aerialist, served as inspiration to such artists as Jean Cocteau, Man Ray and Alfred Hitchcock?
... that French writer Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin was the last book read by Sigmund Freud before he committed suicide?

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Portal:The arts/DYK/20

... that Aythorpe Roding Windmill (pictured) is the largest surviving post mill in Essex, England?
... that Bill Flemming called over 600 events as a broadcaster for the ABC Sports' Wide World of Sports during his career?
... that the 1994 French–Romanian film An Unforgettable Summer depicts the persecution of Bulgarians by Romanian Army personnel, in a metaphor of the Yugoslav wars?

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... that The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (pictured) was the first painting to demonstrate, based on systematic photographic analysis, how horses move?
... that Cheyenne artist Bently Spang satirized anthropologists' depictions of Native Americans as a "lost culture" with a museum exhibit showcasing ordinary objects?
... that Bagyi Aung Soe, now recognized as one of Burma's most important modern artists, lived in poverty and was considered by some to be mad?

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