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Ezra Miller has been tapped to play The Flash in Warner Bros.’ new Justice League movie based on the DC Comics character. The film is due out in 2018. Miller, 22, is the first out LBGT actor to land a starring role in a major superhero movie. He’s known best for … Read entire story.
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Nearly 20,000 Shona citizens once animated the 1,800-acre ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Sub-Saharan Africa has many zimbabwes, or stone villages, but this one is by far the most legendary. All that remains from the medieval capital is its awe-inspiring, stony skeleton. But, long after the Kingdom of Zimbabwe’s demise in the 15th century, Great Zimbabwe’s […]
On February 11, pro-Palestinian protestors recently staged a sit-in at the British Museum over its 10-year deal with BP. Last December, the museum announced a £50 million ($63.3 million) sponsorship deal with BP, funding that is used for the refurbishment and redisplay of the museum’s permanent collection over a 10-year span. Trustees of the board […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a historic stained-glass window by Tiffany. The three-part Garden Landscape window (1912) was commissioned by the philanthropist Sarah B. Cochran—a coal industry leader nicknamed the “Coal Queen”—for her Pennsylvania Tudor-Revival estate, Linden Hall. The conception, commissioning, and crafting of the window were all done by women, a rare […]