Visual and Musical Arts bring beauty into our lives. These stories explore and reveal the inspiration behind great artworks, the challenges to create them and their impact on the world.
Every November 5th, as bonfires burn, Britain celebrates being saved from a national catastrophe when Guy Fawkes was discovered with 36 barrels of gun...
The “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” are known as one of the “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.”No one really knows where the Ha...
Hannah More opposed slavery and the slave trade. She fought hard with people like Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, John Newton and many others to...
We know how Henry VIII and many of his contemporaries appeared thanks to the work of a prolific German artist known as Hans Holbein the Younger. Who w...
Edward Sorel created this parody of America's sitting Vice-President, Spiro Agnew, in 1973. Not long after the political cartoon was published by Harp...
The legend of Hercules.
A painting, by Sir Luke Fildes, depicts desperate conditions of poor, homeless people during Victorian times. Dickens used Fildes as an illustrator fo...
Still a national hero in Britain, Lord Horatio Nelson helps to save his country from invasion.
Huck Finn tells us that Jim, Miss Watson's African-American helper, tells great stories which travel far and wide.
Taking much of what Tom Sawyer says literally, Huck Finn thinks he can actually summon a genie by rubbing on an old tin can.
Sunsets seem more beautiful in the presence of certain types of clouds. Why is that?
After his city of Warsaw had been bombed into ruin, a 9-year old boy becomes the breadwinner of his family.
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