An Astronomer Was Able to Pinpoint the Mystery Location Depicted in a Van Gogh Masterpiece
A team of scientists recently used astronomy to date Vincent van Gogh’s painting Lane of Poplars at Sunset. The painting depicts a street named Weverstraat, which ran through the center of the town of ...
The underrated French region best discovered by houseboat
Though built by Julius Caesar in 47 BC and brimming with history, it was Vincent Van Gogh who truly brought Arles ... Having ...
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‘I Would Do It Again’: Inside The Sickening Crimes Of Baton Rouge Serial Killer Sean Vincent Gillis
From 1994 until 2004, serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis brutally murdered eight women in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, committing heinous acts of necrophilia, cannibalism, and dismemberment. He was so ...
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Did van Gogh Have a Goth Phase?
By Nina Siegal Reporting from Helsinki Why did Vincent van Gogh paint a skeleton smoking a cigarette? His 1886 painting doesn’t quite seem to fit into his larger output, one teeming with ...
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Four days after finding Van Gogh with a mutilated ear, Gauguin witnessed the guillotining of a murderer
then mutilated his ear. Gauguin returned from the hotel the next morning, finding Van Gogh lying severely wounded on his bed. Vincent was then taken to hospital and his brother Theo was summoned ...
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DC Council member, former Mayor Vincent Gray has dementia, won’t vote on legislation for rest of term
D.C. Council member Vincent Gray announced Thursday he has dementia and will no longer vote on legislation or other matters before the Council. “This is not an easy decision, but it is the right ...
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Alex Van Halen doesn’t ‘sugar coat’ complex relationship he had with Eddie in new book ‘Brothers’
However, Van Halen was something different. The powerhouse hard rock band co-founded by Alex and his brother, Eddie, sold over 70 million albums during their nearly four-decade run. It was Alex ...
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Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
The National Gallery surveys two crowded years in the career of the Dutch master, writes John Westbrooke Vincent Van Gogh, whose work provides the National Gallery with a brilliant 200th birthday ...