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    Eisenhower Memorial

    Full article www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-usa-eisenhowermemoriall1e8gfmkx-20120515,0,727919.story chicagotribune.com Architect Gehry proposes changes to Eisenhower memorial Reuters 6:13 PM CDT, May 15, 2012 By Lily Kuo WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) – Architect Frank Gehry submitted changes on Tuesday to a memorial planned for former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a project that has Read More

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    I Almost Missed the Jesus Revolution

    It was a Monday, June 21, 1971, when Time magazine had a picture of Jesus on its cover; obviously not an actual photograph, since the necessary technology was yet to be conceived of in 1st century AD, but instead a likeness. An accurate likeness to the real Christ is doubtful, but rather a similar likeness of Him as depicted by religious paintings and icons; the earliest known portrait was discovered in Syria around 235. (^ Brandon, S.G.F, “Christ in verbal and depicted imagery”. Neusner, Jacob (ed.): Christianity, Judaism and other Greco-Roman cults: Studies for Morton Smith at sixty. Part Two: Early Christianity, pp. 166–167. BRILL, 1975. ISBN 978-90-04-04215-5) The Times’…

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    Madeleine Albright is born

    May 15, 1937: Full Article On this day in 1937, Madeleine Albright, America’s first female secretary of state, is born Maria Jana Korbelova in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). The daughter of Czech diplomat Josef Korbel, Albright fled to England with her family after the  Read More

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    The Barnes Foundation

    Full Article Established in 1922, the foundation housing the collection of Dr. Albert Barnes has in recent years undergone financial troubles and, after a controversial, years-long legal fight over control of the foundation’s artwork, moved into  Read More