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The Incan llama, as pictured above, is a 6cm by 1cm gold figurine that was presented as an offering, likely accompanied by gifts such as golden human figures and human sacrifice. The item has been hammered into shape, and represents the mark of the…

With Milan being the Italian hub for industrialization in the late 1800s/early 1900s, the death of anarchist Angelo Galli sparked political conflict between the anarchists and the police. Angelo Galli was stabbed to death by factory security guards…

The Firenze Santa Maria Novella Railway Station was constructed in 1934 by the Italian fascist government. It was designed by a group of architects known as the “Gruppo Tuscano” and was built under the constriction that it be the “most inconspicuous,…

F. T. Marinetti -the founder of Italian Futurism- declared the necessity of “liberat[ing] words” in his 1912 Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature (Rainey). He asserts the importance of breaking from past literary tradition with the new idea of…

The Italian Futurist painter, Giacomo Balla, painted on canvas Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912), a piece that became one of the most recognizable art works from the Futurist movement. The painting portrays a woman walking a dachshund on a leash.…

This project was requested by a newly settled Dominican community to be a quadratic shaped building built on a Belgian farm. The purpose of this building was to be a space that brought people together to live, connect, learn, and worship. Inside this…

While Vignes-Blanches was designed with the intention of providing a mutualistic relationship between the occupant and the architect, the realization of this goal proved more difficult in its execution. Lucien Kroll and his Atelier were awarded a…

The Interim Report to the Deputy Attorney General written up by special council member John C. Danforth is an extensive one hundred- and fifty-three-page summary on the exhaustive efforts which were taken by Danforth and his team to investigate every…

The siege of the Mount Carmel Compound by the ATF was supposed to expose the religious sect as malicious, as the government agency wanted to search the grounds for illegal weaponry and in response to multiple claims of abuse and neglect within the…

This photograph of David Koresh, his wife Rachel, and their son Cyrus was taken outside their home in Texas by Elizabeth Baranyai, a member of the Branch Davidians. Baranyai is credited with most if not all of the photographs of the Branch Davidians…