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Walters explores African presence in Renaissance Europe
One of the ways in which Renaissance artists explored their world was by painting increasingly realistic portraits. Even when they depicted historical, religious and mythic subjects, they often relied upon the people around them to serve as models. As...
Tags: Museums, Arts, Lisbon (Portugal), Fine Artists, Artists
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In Little Italy, fresh eyes on American democracy
So intent was Riccardo Migliori on his mission — observing the U.S. election and asking questions about the voting process in Baltimore — that he missed the statues of saints and the oil painting of Pope Leo XIII. So foreign was the idea...
Tags: Justice System, Christianity, Judges, Elections, Freedom of the Press
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Marie McG. Leaf, combat nurse
Marie McG. Leaf, a World War II combat nurse who cared for the wounded and dying on the battlefields of Europe, died Thursday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at the Augsburg Lutheran Home and Village in Lochearn.
She was 95.
The daughter of...Tags: Nursing Homes, Republic of Ireland, Christianity, Saint Agnes Hospital, Germany
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U.S. stronger, safer under Obama
Four years ago, Osama bin Laden was at large, the U.S. and world economies were in free-fall, America was bogged down in two wars, and the Bush Administration had lost friends — governments as well as ordinary people — for America around the...Tags: Joe Biden, China, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, U.S. Senate
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Will America go the way of Europe?
As the presidential election counts down to (despite recent tightening in the polls) a likely Obama victory, even moderate Republicans despair that America is going the way of "social democratic" Western Europe, with a smaller private sector, more power...
Tags: Philosophy, Pension and Welfare, Ethics, Teaching and Learning, Gays and Lesbians
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Walters art exhibit focuses on Africans living in Renaissance Europe
The view of a 16th-century Lisbon street is such a teeming hodgepodge of races, social classes and religions and has so much life on display — much of it mischievous — that's it hard not to smile. Slightly to the right of center, an African...
Tags: Museums, Johns Hopkins University, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Arts, Artists
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Revelation at the Walters
People passing through the intersection at Charles and Centre streets recently may have noticed an intriguing banner hanging from the wall above the entrance to the Walters Art Museum. The oversize image depicts a black woman dressed in the manner of a...
Tags: Museums, Africa, Arts, Inner Harbor, Artists
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Close encounters with socialized medicine
In the mid-1980s when I was a graduate student in England, my parents came to visit and my mother ended up getting a first-hand look at socialized medicine. It was dad and mom's one-and-only trip to Europe -- a very big deal -- and I wanted to show...
Tags: England, Entertainment Events, France, Companies and Corporations, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Rachel Marsden: Is Putin the Russian Reagan?
It would seem that we're now at the stage of global economic lunacy where the worldwide socialist slide is so far gone that the president of Russia is lecturing the world, and particularly Europe, about the risks of socialism. Speaking at the Asia-...
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Vladimir Putin, Bernard Arnault, International Trade, Political Systems
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Decline in circumcisions costing health care system billions, study finds
A 20-year decline in male circumcision has cost the country $2 billion in medical costs that could have been prevented, Johns Hopkins researchers say in a study released Monday.
In what is believed to be the first look at the economic impact of male...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Human papillomavirus, University of Maryland, College Park, Union Memorial Hospital
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New report shows CNN International as top news channel in Africa
The Baltimore SunI know some of my more parochial colleagues can't get past the troubles CNN continues to have in its prime-time American operation. And I am right up there in being dismayed by some of the moves management has made with Eliot Spitzer, Kathleen Parker,...Tags: Television, Asia, CNN International (tv network), Media Industry, TBS (tv network)
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London calling?
As excitement builds for this week's opening of the Summer Olympics, many an armchair athlete may yearn to hop a transcontinental flight to London.
But if a trip overseas isn't in the cards right now, why not discover a taste of jolly olde England closer...Tags: London (England), United Kingdom, Arts, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Bars and Clubs
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