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He came back once more, to meditate during the fateful 100 days before waterloo, and after that last catastrophic defeat, the english allowed him to return here just once more before his final exile to distant st. Helena. The house was empty then. His former wife, the empress josephine, whose house it was had died. She had kept this room exactly as it had been during their happiest moments together. Here napoleon had enjoyed moments of his greatest triumphs and moments of his greatest creativity. For in the story of art, too, napoleon was an extraordinary catalyst, not merely in the pictures t...

Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project at first, the doctors thought it was sciatica, and then they admitted it was gangrene. The old man suffered greatly those last days, and then, on the 31st of august 1715, the clergy gathered around him, and they began, timidly, to chant the ave maria. All through the night, they carried on chanting. Then, at 8 15 in the morning in the royal bed in the Great Chamber in the center of the palace, louis xiv, the sun king, died, like every man. So wrote a contemporary diarist. Its often said that when louis died, an age died with him. The age of...

One muslim group though, the sufis, claim to try to replicate muhammads mystical experience of god through intense prayer, the chanting of gods name and singing verses from the quran. Emre yildirim when Prophet Muhammad was saying his prayers, while he was mediating and communicating with god he used to hear the divine instructions and then act, thats why in sufism and in islam, we also try and come close to god. Through our rituals we try to be one with him. Prophet muhammad is an example of this. Whatever he did during his prayers or during his daily life is there for us to take example. Rag...

Practice 16th notes. slobin musical transmission means learning and teaching music. Music continues because people teach it to each other. Kids learn music when they grow up. [lowpitched humming] all of us have learned songs simply because they were there in the atmosphere. We may have learned them from family members, which is extremely common. [violin plays] where is this . I cant even see it. slobin we may have learned them from teachers, which happens in organized school systems. We may have learned them from records, radios, recordings which is, of course, probably the most common way we ...

A feminist Graphic Designer whose work is provoking vital conversations. Women wearing the hijab riding motorbikes. Women navigating public spaces and so asian wonder woman bold unapologetic women who hold out against pakistani digital artist shares will mannix work cuts through patriarchal consciousness and judging by the viral impact theyve had online she has struck a chord so my art mostly deals with identity trying to figure out what it means to be young and pakistani having influences from the west and the east flying out what kind of artwork would that look like a report published by the...