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Picasso proclaimed: "C'est nous qui avons fait ca". It is us who created that. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? Despite the thousands of deaths ...
By Farah Nayeri Pablo Picasso stands, cigarette in hand, gazing intently at the viewer. A white pocket square pokes out of his suit jacket; strands of hair reach up to the top of the canvas.
Pablo Picasso is one of the subjects of bestselling author Claire Dederer’s 2023 book Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma. She asks a question many people have struggled with: should we allow ourselves ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At Sotheby’s modern and contemporary evening auction in London earlier this month, a Picasso painting ...
An Oxford college wants to commemorate all those connected to it who died in World War One, irrespective of the country they died fighting for. The Queen's College currently has 121 names on its ...
LONDON -- On Jan. 1, 1917, a young man from Lancashire started a diary. It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a ...
Pablo Picasso with his partner Françoise Gilot, one of Sue Roe’s subjects - lIPNITZKI ...
Try these discussions to improve your speaking and listening. There are 20 questions in each activity - 10 for Student A and 10 for Student B. You can print out the worksheet. You can listen to the ...
Within a year of Great Britain declaring war on Germany in August 1914, it had become obvious that it was not possible to continue fighting by relying on voluntary recruits. Lord Kitchener's campaign ...
Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...