Arts & Culture
The William Pitt statue that Timothy Dexter left in Newburyport
A wooden statue of William Pitt, sculpted by eccentric businessman Timothy Dexter in the eighteenth century, is displayed at the Old Newbury Museum in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
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Middle East
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Mary Heilmann, painter who blended ceramics and sculpture into her art, dies at 86
Mary Heilmann, an American painter whose work playfully and integrally combined ceramics, sculpture and painting, has died at the age of 86.
Alexei Sayle's memoirs chart decades of political activism
The 74-year-old British comedian documents his life on demonstrations from 1960s Liverpool to present-day London in a biography about his political commitment.
Dickens on holiday: an exhibition of his summer escapes
An exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum in London examines the writer's holiday trips, from Kent to the Isle of Wight.
Memorial commemorates Battle of Stillman's Run in Illinois
A monument in Stillman Valley, Illinois, remembers 12 soldiers killed in a confused 1832 confrontation between local militias and Sauk warriors, in which the young Abraham Lincoln participated.
