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Ennio Morricone - Le vent, le cri
The perfect minute celebrating the human ability to create harmony through music, movement, vitality, grace, and art — in the beauty of a poetic exchange between two young lovers. Fleeting, intense, and magnificent!
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Gregory Peck REFUSED Top Billing on Roman Holiday—When Audrey Heard Why, She Broke Down in Tears
Audrey Hepern arrived on that film set in Rome in 1952. She was 23 years old, but her eyes carried far more than 23 years of life. She had survived Nazi occupation. She had endured hunger that brought her body to the edge of survival. She had watched her father walk out the door and never return.
She had seen her ballet dreams collapse because malnutrition had damaged her body beyond repair. Now she was standing on a Hollywood set, trembling beside the biggest movie star in the world. Gregory Peek had no idea who she was. He did not know her past or her pain. But when the cameras started rolling, he saw something in her that stopped him cold.
And what he saw moved him so deeply that he decided to do something no Hollywood star had ever done before. He walked into the producers's office and demanded that his own name be made smaller. He told them this unknown girl deserved equal billing. Then he made a prophecy that shocked everyone in the room. He said that if they did not listen, they would all look foolish in 6 months when she won the Oscar. Nobody believed him.
But on Oscar night 1954, Audrey Hepburn's name was called best actress. Gregory Pek was the first person to stand and applaud, and there were tears streaming down his face. This is the story of how Hollywood's biggest star recognized greatness before the world did.
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‘By the Fire’
American Impressionist
Richard Edward Miller (1875-1943)
Wow this is exceptionally glorious and glowy
He became a core member of the ‘Giverny Group’
Claude Monets rural art colony.
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Stunning footage of New York on Easter Sunday, 31st March 1929. Glamorously dressed ladies and gentlemen stroll down Fifth Avenue for the Easter Parade and queue outside St Patrick's Cathedral.
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"Clerys has been part of Dublin for many decades."
WATCH: RTÉ News reports #OnThisDay in 1983
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A breezy day in the old neighbourhood with the medical hall where Falvey's chemist stood in my time. Note the two little boys in sailor suits doffing their caps to Mary Poppins, Mangan's clock and the giant union jack.
This remarkable Mitchell & Kenyon film takes us from King Street, now MacCurtain Street, towards St Patrick’s Bridge, Cork, Ireland
Filmed from the front of an electric tram, we glide through the busy Edwardian city, sharing the streets with horse-drawn carts, other trams and pedestrians.
Cork’s electric tram system was still relatively new, having opened just four years earlier in 1898.
#Cork #Ireland #1900s #Edwardian #IrishHistory
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They were great for keeping us warm at night. We all slept with the overcoats over us because the tenement rooms were freezing cold. That was in the 1930s.”
Mrs Kelly.
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1/7 Working-Class History in Storage.The Mary Bruce Collection (1900s–1920s)
This remarkable collection of letters, photographs and theatrical memorabilia was rescued from a rubbish skip, preserving a forgotten piece of Dublin’s working-class history. Mary Bruce was a theatrical
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This is a remarkable meeting of two musical worlds, brought together by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé in “Barcelona”, a work that transcended the boundaries of a song to become a cultural landmark forever associated with the 1992 Olympic Games.
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A quiet day in Giverny unfolds as we follow a woman through a garden in bloom—where light, time, and memory drift gently together. From misty morning dew on lotus leaves, to a golden afternoon reading beneath the willow, and finally moonlight shimmering across the pond.
🖼️ Claude Monet — Living Inside “The Water Lily Pond”
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🇫🇷🎬 Les coulisses du montage de l’exposition « Marie-Antoinette » de Sofia Coppola
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📅 Du 22 septembre 2026 au 24 janvier 2027📍 Petit Trianon
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A writer never stops learning to better their craft. With each word we write, we add to our knowledge, and with each new idea, we expand it. #amwriting ...Be Writing. #AmWriting
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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is excited to announce that it has received a historic $60 million gift that will fundamentally expand public access to its 15 million item archive dedicated to dance, theater, and music—one of the world's largest such collections. The anonymous donation is the biggest ever to the research library. This historic gift kicks off a large-scale digitization, preservation, and cataloging project enabling its treasures to be easily accessed by anyone, anywhere, anytime.
The anonymous donor recognized the urgent need to preserve and expand access to the immense cultural heritage within the archives of the Library for the Performing Arts. We are profoundly grateful for this extraordinary gift!
Learn more: on.nypl.org/4gZlOd0

ALT Exterior view of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, featuring a prominent entrance. A large banner displays "The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dance Music Recorded Sound Theatre." Adjacent is a poster of Martha Graham. Text overlaid on the image announces, "The Library for the Performing Arts receives historic $60 million gift.






















