2008 December 18
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Featured: A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933) |
- Freddy Breck, 66, German schlager singer, cancer.
Anita Berber und Sebastian Droste: Tanzszene aus "Märtyrer"
Dancer Ruth St Denis (1879–1968) strikes Art Nouveau poses in the New York Public Library’s Denishawn Collection.
Electronic Arts does Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri's La Divina Commedia, so much for cultural pessimists. see Dante's Inferno (video game)
Joseph Stalin @130, leader of the Soviet Union (1878 - 1953), sometimes said to responsible for more deaths (during the Collectivization and the Great Purge) than the Holocaust, definer of socialist realism and murderer of poets. I hate dictators with a lousy taste in the arts, give me Catherine the Great any day.
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