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BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhua) -- In April 1955, delegates from 29 Asian and African nations gathered in Bandung, Indonesia, for the historic Asian-African Conference, also known as the Bandung Conference ...
In 1964, 23-year-old Ramon Martinez Martinez left his job as a struggling painter in Madrid, Spain, and journeyed south to ...
No list of iconic typefaces would be complete without a nod to the classic typewriter, and Courier, created in 1955 by Howard ...
Some fonts are more successful than others, and over the centuries, certain typefaces have risen to prominence and live long ...
A blockbuster show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris spotlights 300-plus works by 150 artists of African heritage ...
Conservation group Twentieth Century Society has announced its 2025 Risk List of UK buildings under threat of demolition or neglect, which includes "millennium-era buildings" for the first time.
Today’s disgruntled calls for pockets are not new — in fact they became associated with the Suffrage movement at the turn of the 20th century as women demanded the right to vote. Men walked down the ...
Photo: WATANABE Osamu, courtesy of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa In Japan, a 2.5-hour bullet train from Tokyo brings visitors to the country’s western coastline and the ...
Films like "Fist of Fury," "Enter the Dragon," and "Game of Death" introduced dazzling Chinese-style martial arts to Hollywood, offering Western audiences — accustomed to modern gunfight scenes — a ...
THE first two articles (February 14 and March 7) in this series tracing the history of Priory Road School from its foundation in 1875, dealt with the years up to the turn of the twentieth century ...