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Ralph Goings May 9, 1928 – September 4, 2016Everything I paint...
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View Article"During these periods [between the full and new moon] the flood tides rise...
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April 23, 1967: The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 1 into...
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Berkeley Barb Issue 507, May 2-8, 1975Berkeley Barb
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Eugène Delacroix April 26, 1798 – August 13, 1863Something else...
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April 27, 1945: While fleeing the country, Benito Mussolini and...
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Yves Klein April 28, 1928 – June 6, 1962As the story goes, Yves...
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Somebody on Twitter dug this up - sometime during a desperate...
Somebody on Twitter dug this up - sometime during a desperate late April stretch of the 1975 ABA playoffs, the Denver Nuggets called on a professional witch to hex their competition, the Indiana...
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Dan BudnikThe Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Rev. Fred...
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Some vibrant covers for the short-lived radical magazine The...
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May 2, 1952: The beginning of the ‘Jet Age’ — the de Havilland...
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Umetada MotoshigeCeremonial arrowheads (Yanonē) (detail), c....
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May 3, 1963: In Birmingham, Alabama, city authorities begin to...
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(Translation) Edward Fitzgerald; (Illustration) Edmund...
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Diana DaviesGay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971NYPL
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May 8, 1911: Robert Johnson is born in Hazlehurst,...
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Ralph Goings May 9, 1928 – September 4, 2016Everything I paint...
Ralph Goings May 9, 1928 – September 4, 2016Everything I paint is something I want to see painted — ordinary, everyday things and places. I guess I have a rather romantic fascination with diners and...
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