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Jun 30, 2024 · The slum’s growth reflected that of Mumbai itself, a diverse city famous for attracting Bollywood hopefuls and job-seekers from across India. Throughout the country, ...
Jun 29, 2024 · We don’t know the original destination of the painting, which was purchased from a private collection in 1784. Round paintings were usually destined to the secular world in the Renaissance, and above all to noble homes. However, in the light of the considerable size of the painting, it may have been hung in one of the tribunals of the Florentine Republic, which were often decorated with holy ...
Jun 29, 2024 · The Madonna has her Child on her lap and she's represented in the act of writing, surrounded by a circle of beautiful angels. Cristina De Caro tells us about this Florentine master's masterpiece.
Jul 15, 2024 · A.Z. Madonna has reported on and reviewed classical and pop music for the Boston Globe since 2015. After a year as a freelancer, she joined the Globe staff on Halloween 2016, and nine days later ...
3 days ago · "La Isla Bonita" (Spanish for "The Beautiful Island") is a song by American singer Madonna from her third studio album True Blue (1986). Patrick Leonard and Bruce Gaitsch created it as an instrumental demo and offered it to singer Michael Jackson, who turned it down.
Jul 11, 2024 · The most populated slums in the world - As the world’s population climbs toward the 8.5 billion mark, there is the ever-present question of where some people are going to live. The answer for many, sadly, is this one: slums. According to the United Nations, a slum is an area of a city mostly characterized by substandard housing and squalor.
Jul 11, 2024 · This slum, also known as "Garbage City," is located in the western area of Cairo, Egypt. Most of the 70,000 residents of this informal settlement are garbage collectors, hence the name.
