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The Secret Behind Mona Lisa Painting
Whether it is hundreds of scenarios surrounding the Mona Mona arrival of the Louvre, the 19th-century mythology, or the endless production of works of the 20th and 21st centuries, its natural appeal has made it a world-famous painting. It is possible that the mystery of who sat down, the 1911 theft, and subsequent conspiracy theories put Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) in the public mind. The mysterious scenario surrounding the painting in the nineteenth century continues to define it and attract speculation.
By Laxmi Thapa4 years ago in FYI
Girl with a Pearl Earring
From a distance, large pieces of jewelry appear to be made with great detail. Fragments of fabric used as temporary turbans are made of bright yellow material with a blue border, a color that looks similar to the one seen painted on lives, paintings, and love letters.
By Laxmi Thapa4 years ago in FYI
Ancient Lore of Talismans
The word "talisman" comes from the Greek telesma, meaning "completion, religious rite," from the verb teleo, meaning "I complete, perform a rite. [2] Centuries of magical faith and experience support the belief that these legendary luck - bringers can attract good luck or avert misfortune. [0]
By JC Soulwood4 years ago in FYI
5 Things To Stop Saying To People With Acne
I started getting acne when I was eleven. I went through puberty a little earlier than most people around me, so that meant that my struggle was suffered--for the most part--alone. All around me, I had friends who hadn't ever gotten a zit yet, who were playing around like little kids without a care in the world, parading through the hallways with crystal-clear skin that made me jealous. I felt like my beauty had been ripped away from me. Acne was wearing on my confidence, and I wanted to do something about it.
By Brooklyn Reece4 years ago in FYI
The Story of Conjoined Twins Chang & Eng
Chang and Eng Bunker were sons born to Nok and Ti-eye in Meklong, Siam (now Thailand) in 1811. Their father was born in China and worked as a fisherman, while their mother raised them and their seven other siblings. They were just normal boys who played with their brothers and sisters along the riverbank, swam, and steered their father’s boat; except that they were stuck together. They were what we know now as conjoined twins.
By Kassondra O'Hara4 years ago in FYI
Words That Meant Something Different Before the Internet
Today, technology is an integral part of everybody's daily activities. There are hundreds of concepts, terms, and terminologies that mean something entirely different now than they did before the internet. During this age of computers, smartphones, and other modern-day forms of communication, one must know what those terms mean now as well as what they used to mean.
By Margaret Minnicks4 years ago in FYI
Jim Crow in the USSR
We are all colonized.— marginalia in a library copy of Dominance Without Hegemony by Ranajit Guha, Indian historian The reader of Langston Hughes’s writings on the Soviet experiment is bound to be confused. In the 1930s, during the peak of Stalinist repression, Hughes produced volumes praising the Soviet Union, particularly the Central Asian republics of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan where, as he writes in the second volume of his autobiography, I Wonder as I Wander (1956), “the majority of the [Soviet Union’s] colored citizens lived” (123).
By Rebecca Ruth Gould4 years ago in FYI



