Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 35 people dead in the
Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States.
... that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos bought New York City's Crown Building because of a tearful plea?
... that the magazine Acoustic Guitar said that Dan Erlewine "might be the most famous guitar repairperson on earth"?
... that models in the runway show for Nihilism by
Alexander McQueen were dressed in plastic, locusts, rust, and clay?
... that literary critic
Leslie Fiedler called the novel Band of Angels "operatic in the worst sense of the word"?
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The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by
Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader,
Jean-Paul Marat. It was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a
Montagnard, and a member of the revolutionary
Committee of General Security. Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his murder by
Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. Art historian
T. J. Clark called David's painting the first modernist work for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it".
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Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 35 people dead in the
Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States.
... that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos bought New York City's Crown Building because of a tearful plea?
... that the magazine Acoustic Guitar said that Dan Erlewine "might be the most famous guitar repairperson on earth"?
... that models in the runway show for Nihilism by
Alexander McQueen were dressed in plastic, locusts, rust, and clay?
... that literary critic
Leslie Fiedler called the novel Band of Angels "operatic in the worst sense of the word"?
Today's featured picture
The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by
Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader,
Jean-Paul Marat. It was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a
Montagnard, and a member of the revolutionary
Committee of General Security. Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his murder by
Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. Art historian
T. J. Clark called David's painting the first modernist work for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it".
Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the
Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer
projects: