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Since it first hit the funny pages back in 1980, Gary Larson’s The Far Side flipped the whole comic strip game.
Nicky Haslam has a new tea towel out. He’s released six of these tea towels over the past few years, listing items and habits he finds common, and it’s become quite a long list including but not ...
Memorable quote: “You can’t make someone want education.” Another one of our movies based on true stories, Freedom Writers ...
For centuries, the Mona Lisa has mesmerized viewers with her mysterious smile, captivating the imaginations of art lovers, ...
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The Louvre Museum in Paris, home to the Mona Lisa, unexpectedly shut down due to a staff strike, leaving tourists stranded. Workers cite unbearable conditions from mass tourism, understaffing, and ...
Some scholars argue the Mona Lisa might be Leonardo da Vinci himself, painted as a kind of gender-fluid self-portrait. There’s also the theory that she’s no one—that da Vinci wasn’t painting a person ...
It is the world’s most-visited museum, which has capped the number of daily visits to 30,000. But on Monday, as thousands of tourists queued up, the Louvre in Paris abruptly shut down. Many, holding ...
Lisa McCarty, 45 Washington D.C. ... My dad’s not the most emotive person, but the birth of his granddaughter brought out a side of him I’ve never seen before.
From a surrealist’s stunning self-portrait to a prankster’s chuckle-inducing rendition of the “Mona Lisa,” keep scrolling to enjoy paintings that will tickle your intellectual funny bone.