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Cultureteca 05.01.20

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Australia's bushfire season continued to burn with unusual intensity, wreaking devastation to land and homes especially in the south-eastern states of Victoria and New South Wales. Amid record-breaking high temperatures, which have seen Australia record hotter than average temperatures for every month over the last three years, prescribed burning which might otherwise have reduced the fuel load has been...

Cultureteca 24.11.19

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When the Wallace Collection in London was bequeathed to the nation in 1897, one of the conditions of the bequest was that no work should ever leave the collection, but should remain 'kept together unmixed with other objects of art'. The Wallace Collection opened to the public three years later, with its paintings by Titian and Rubens, Velázquez, Van...

Cultureteca 29.11.15

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On Cultureteca this week, David Bowie announces Blackstar for the date of his sixty-ninth birthday; NASA's Curiosity rover relays the first images of active sand dunes on Mars; Raspberry Pi unveils a single-board computer for just $5; the 2015 Davis Cup in tennis reaches a climax, with Great Britain against Belgium; and Leicester City's Jamie Vardy breaks a Premier League record...