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He has found a new patron in BTS, the K-Pop boyband that has become a global phenomenon
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For weeks Lady Liberty was moved between university campuses and protest sites around Hong Kong island, before being displayed atop Lion Rock
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Making black lives visible—making them count, in every sense—is the overarching plot-line of both Stacey Abrams’s literary and political endeavours
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In the lead roles of Kylo Ren and Rey, Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley deliver the most complex emotional performances of the entire nine-film saga
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Eleanor Roosevelt was born
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1884. The first lady was on the right side of history on almost every subject
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It explores the standing of gay men in America through the twisted pathology of Andrew Cunanan, who killed five men in 1997
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“A searing voice [in] the fight for human dignity”, diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank was born
#OnThisDay
1929
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Ms Argerich, now 78 years old, is considered by many critics and classical-music fans to be the world’s greatest living pianist
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“What kind of city regulates ice-cream stores more strictly than drug-dealers who kill 713 of its citizens in a single year?”
@ShellenbergerMD
asks in his new book, “San Fransicko”
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Bruce Springsteen is the bard of deindustrialisation, of dreams murdered and fates mastered
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When most shows were led by Average Joes, “Frasier” revolved around out-of-touch, preening snobs
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Happy birthday Oscar Wilde, born
#onthisday
in 1854. This is our favourite Wilde witticism—tweet us yours
http://t.co/RX13tusLgs
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The Grand Budapest Hotel wins for best film (comedy or musical) at
#GoldenGlobes
. Our review:
http://t.co/qI9v7LBUkA
http://t.co/7NwC7Qf34n
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Kazuo Ishiguro, a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer, has won the Nobel prize in literature
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Ian Fleming, creator of
#007
, was born
#OnThisDay
1908. To celebrate: the movie Bonds in brief
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Franz Kafka was born
#OnThisDay
1883. He depicted the world as he saw it, full of lonely and persecuted individuals
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.
@FiammettaRocco
, our Books and Arts editor, recommends Paul Auster's “4 3 2 1”
#WorldBookDay
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Amy Schumer, Ricky Gervais and Dave Chapelle are thought to have signed contracts with Netflix worth $13m, $40m and $60m respectively
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"I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend": singer-songwriter Freddie Mercury died
#onthisday
1991
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Da Vinci died
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1519. How did Leonardo become the great creative thinker we now consider him to be?
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"Spotlight" wins the coveted Best Picture. It's an elegy to a bygone era of journalism
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In pictures: why cities should just say no to hosting the
#Olympics
http://t.co/8t29dmpzbf
#Rio2016
http://t.co/sNxAm8lj8z
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Was Alexander von Humboldt—who was born
#OnThisDay
1769—the greatest scientist of the 19th century?
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Simone de Beauvoir died
#OnThisDay
1986. “The Second Sex” is considered a landmark work of the feminist movement
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J.R.R. Tolkien was born
#OnThisDay
1892. A biography recounts the writer's lifelong pursuit of a “mythology for England”
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The devastating scene in the original “Dumbo” speaks to every parent’s fears of being separated from a child
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Leonardo DiCaprio—finally!—wins Best Actor for "The Revenant"
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Egypt's greatest undiscovered pharaonic tomb may be hiding in plain sight
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"Amy"—an engrossing documentary about the short life of Amy Winehouse—wins the Oscar
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Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa, was born
#OnThisDay
1910
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Ludwig Wittgenstein was born
#OnThisDay
1889. He introduced the theory of “language games”
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Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first black president
#OnThisDay
1994. The paradoxes of his views and politics
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Ernest Hemingway died
#OnThisDay
in 1961. His greatest love in his later years was his boat
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The Stonewall riots began
#OnThisDay
1969, sparking the modern gay-rights movement across America
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Leo Tolstoy died
#OnThisDay
1910. His death—like his life—was a monumental event, particularly in Russia
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An inconvenient truth is that millennials are reading, and more than other generations
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Joseph Conrad died
#onthisday
1924. His experience as a mariner found its way into his novels
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How an NGO is using Bollywood films to help teach people to read
http://t.co/5q9uEkI9cu
#InternationalLiteracyDay
http://t.co/LzpGx47H3R
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Ludwig Wittgenstein was born
#onthisday
1889. He introduced the theory of "language games"
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Galileo died
#OnThisDay
1642. He brought about one of the biggest revolutions in self-knowledge that mankind has undergone
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More people attend London’s plays and musicals than London's Premier League football matches
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Thomas Piketty is back in the news. ICYMI: his book "Capital" explained in four paragraphs
http://t.co/AFJud0tnLU
http://t.co/cMQUe8mGGw
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky—author of classic novel "Crime and Punishment"—was born
#onthisday
1821
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#OnThisDay
1945 photojournalist Lee Miller finds Hitler’s Munich apartment and has an idea.
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110 individuals control 35% of
#Russia
's wealth - Karen Dawisha, "Putin's Kleptocracy"
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Van Gogh was born
#OnThisDay
1853. A biography demolishes any romance that still attaches to the artist's life
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Camus died
#OnThisDay
1960, aged 46. He had already won the Nobel prize and introduced readers to the philosophy of the absurd
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“I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.” Singer-songwriter Freddie Mercury was born
#OnThisDay
1946
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How "To Kill a Mockingbird" shaped race relations in America
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Winston Churchill was born
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1874. In a country led by the weak and wobbly, his towering figure looms larger than ever
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Photographs of the solar system are often striking in their simplicity
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Learning another language sometimes confers an intellectual boost. But that has never been the main reason to do it
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Orwell wrote “1984” not as a prophecy but as a warning, to galvanise action so that the future he described never came to pass
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The 11-year reign of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) is still, to many, “the most notorious in papal history”
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Why
#Hokusai
deserves to be known for more than just this image
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J.S. Mill died
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1873. How we can harness the help of one of history’s sharpest minds in producing policies
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The difficulties of “crowd-based living” began in ancient Mesopotamia, the Indus river valley, and in the Mayan and Aztec empires
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Ron Chernow’s 1,100-page biography may crown Ulysses S. Grant’s restoration
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How Ermonela Jaho became the world's most acclaimed soprano
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The king who played music with Bach, debated with Voltaire and took his library into battle
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Cicero died
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43BC. The principle that it is rude to interrupt another speaker goes back at least to him
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Nadia Tolokonnikova on the state of Russia's prisons and what the discerning punk reads
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"But still, like air, I'll rise": writer and activist Maya Angelou was born
#onthisday
1928
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“Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” was published
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1997, with a print run of only 500 hardbacks
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Picasso: a magician of unprecedented inventiveness. And a sculptor
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#MagnaCarta
is 800 yrs old. It survives thanks to wily William Marshal (and a batch of cider)
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Luca Pacioli’s 615-page book has been called “the most influential work in the history of capitalism”
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J.M. Barrie died
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1937. His work often deals with themes of exile, innocence and societal constraints
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Ella Fitzgerald—the “First Lady of Song”—died
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1996. She recorded around 2,000 songs in her lifetime
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Sticking to facts doesn't make you harmless;
@MerriamWebster
's Twitter account is a case in point
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