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Ludwig van Beethoven: Under the Bone
Ludwig van Beethoven went deaf before he wrote his most famous work. The Ninth Symphony premiered in 1824 and he could not hear a note of it. The Archivist does the on...
Frida Kahlo: The Body Knows
Frida Kahlo died in 1954 at forty-seven. Her face is now on merchandise worldwide. The paintings that made people uncomfortable are still safely in the museum. This co...
Albert Einstein: The Friction
Albert Einstein's field equations, published in 1915, described a universe more dramatic than he believed possible. Black holes. Gravitational waves. The bending of sp...
Mark Twain: The Cough
Mark Twain spent his career making people laugh at the thing they needed to see clearly. He understood outrage, performed it himself, and knew exactly what happened wh...