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Anonymous Russian prankstersDate:
Jun 26 2024Pranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z poetry’ The patriotic poetry of Gennady Rakitin has won him quite a following in…
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Gen ZDate:
Dec 9 2021In Pittsburgh, Memphis and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, “Birds Aren’t Real.” On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren’t Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos about it have gone viral. Last…
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Dec 6 1933In 1932, Bennett Cerf, cofounder of Random House Publishing, acquired the rights to publish James Joyce’s Ulysses in the United States, believing that the book would be as successful as it had been throughout Europe. But Cerf had a problem.…
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Gran FuryDate:
Jan 1 1989Gran Fury was an AIDS activist artist collective from New York City consisting of 11 members, all artists – but action, not art, was the aim of the collective. Gran Fury member Loring McAlpin described the collective’s mass-market ambition to…
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Jun 15 1971It’s the summer of 1971 and tourists flock around one of Washington DC’s most famous hotspots – the Capitol steps. Journalist Art Goldberg recalls ‘a squad of soldiers moving through the space. They are grubby-looking troopers, clad in jungle fatigues.…
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Sep 1 1992From the Australian, 27 September 1992. Some forms of nonviolent protest are uniquely Indian. Take the ‘gherao’, for instance. A factory owner emerges from his limousine and is mobbed by angry workers. They don’t hurt him: they just surround and…