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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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| 1 |
Who describes the subject; whom describes the object. |
Humanities > Linguistics |
04/23/12 |
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| 2 |
4% of Americans are vegetarian/vegan. |
Humanities |
11/09/10 |
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| 3 |
Mandarin is the most widely spoken language in the world. |
Humanities > Linguistics |
08/08/09 |
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| 4 |
"The Birth of Venus" was painted in the 1480s by Sandro Botticelli. |
Humanities > Art |
06/27/09 |
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| 5 |
"The Storm on the Sea of Galilee" was painted by Rembrandt van Rijn in 1633. |
Humanities > Art |
06/25/09 |
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| 6 |
"La Gioconda" is another name for Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa". |
Humanities > Art |
06/18/09 |
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| 7 |
"The Last Supper" was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. |
Humanities > Art |
06/17/09 |
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| 8 |
Marcel Duchamp entitled a urinal as art and called it "Fountain" in 1917. |
Humanities > Art |
04/05/09 |
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| 9 |
The Pietà and the David were sculpted by Michelangelo before he became thirty years of age. |
Humanities > Art |
03/18/09 |
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| 10 |
"Pietà", a marble sculpture of Mary holding and grieving over the dead body of Jesus, was completed by Michelangelo in 1499. |
Humanities > Art |
02/24/09 |
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| 11 |
Leonardo Da Vinci's drawing showing the proportions of man is called the "Vitruvian Man". |
Humanities > Art |
02/23/09 |
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| 12 |
Jean-François Millet painted "The Gleaners" in 1857 in oil on canvas. |
Humanities > Art |
02/22/09 |
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| 13 |
"Las Dos Fridas" was painted in 1939 by Frida Kahlo. |
Humanities > Art |
02/21/09 |
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| 14 |
In 1930, Grant Wood painted "American Gothic" in oil on beaverboard. |
Humanities > Art |
02/17/09 |
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| 15 |
Diego Rivera painted "Los Viejos" in 1912. |
Humanities > Art |
02/17/09 |
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