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2 Million Bodies Were Used To Make This

Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Photography, Optical Illusion, Angelo Musco, Video, Dante, Nude, Musco, Surreal, Contemporary Surrealism, Insane Body Art, Arts News

Angelo Musco's childhood story could arguably be a terrifying fairy tale. His mother gave birth to four children before him, each one bigger than the...

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Ask Pastor Paul: Answering Questions About The Afterlife

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Augustine, Do Non-Christians Go to Heaven?, Salvation, Dante's Inferno, Mourning, Lent, What Happens When We Die, Ask Pastor Paul, Afterlife, Dante, Death & Dying, Do Atheist Go to Heaven?, Heaven, Religion News
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Dear Pastor Paul, When I was eight I was taught two things in the same week. The first was that accepting Jesus was the only path to heaven; and the second was that there were a billion people in China who had never heard the name Jesus.

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'Do You Have Any Shakespeare Translated Into English?' And 12 Other Ridiculous Things Overheard In Bookstores (PHOTOS)

Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Borders Books, Romeo and Juliet, Bookstore Bingo, Dante, #Bookstorebingo, Dante's Inferno, Lord of the Rings, Bookstore Closings, Shakespeare, Bookstores, Slidepollajax, Books News

Is it really possible that some people don't know who Dante is, or, more shockingly, Shakespeare? According to bookstore employees, there are such peo...

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WATCH: Dante's 'Inferno,' The Stick Figure Edition

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dante Animation, Dante's Inferno, Video, Inferno Animated Video, Dante's Inferno Video, Dante, Inferno, Cliffnotes, Literary Video, Poetry Foundation, Cliff Notes, Poetry, Books News

When you're too lazy to read an entire book ... and even lazier still not to read the CliffNotes ... then you can turn to this hilarious, shabbily ani...

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AUCTION HOUSE EXHIBIT: Art Inspired By 'Divine Comedy' On View At Sotheby's

nytimes.com | CAROL VOGEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: European Art, Lisa Dennison, Auction-Houses, Frans Francken, Dante the Divine Comedy, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Art Exhibits, Sotheby's, Sothebys, Art Exhibitions, Poetry, Arts News

The line between auction houses and art galleries keeps blurring. It is no longer unusual for Sotheby's and Christie's to take over entire galleries. ...

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John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Islam, Theodore Roosevelt, New America Foundation, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism, U.S. Constitution, Domino Theory, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Quaeda, Afghanistan War, Terror Free Tomorroe, Dante, John Kerry, Vietnam War, William Butler Yeats, Fulbright Hearings, Vietnam, Michael Leiter, Predator Drones, Leon Panetta, Politics News
Bruce Fein

John Kerry should re-read his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971, eloquently urging a withdrawal of United States forces from Vietnam, as he contemplates his duty towards Afghanistan.

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Dante's 'Divine Comedy' Reimagined As Graphic Novel

Seymour Chwast | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seymour Chwast

I took on this project with great trepidation because so many great artists have already interpreted this important work. Never mind, I took advantag...

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TECHNOLOGY IN ART: Clicking Michelangelo's Ceiling

Alicia Anstead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Sistine Chapel, Dante, Michelangelo, Hamlet, Las Meninas, Bach, Facebook, Vatican, Arts News
Alicia Anstead

Not long ago, I posted a virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel on my Facebook page. This isn't an online slide show or video guide through a Rome museum ...

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Stephen Colbert Author Interview: Lisa Miller On The Problem With Heaven (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Colbert Report, Video, Dante, Lisa Miller, Stephen Colbert, Author Interviews, Books, Heaven, God, Stephen Colbert Author Interview, Books News

Lisa Miller, the Religion editor of Newsweek, spoke to Stephen Colbert last night about her new book, "Heaven," which explores the history of Heaven, ...

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Interview with a Philosopher: Zombies Are People, Too

Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dante, Zombies, Christ-Figure, Sin, Theology, Violence, Kim Paffenroth, Tom Morris, Film, George Romero, Healthy Living News
Tom Morris

Today I'll be talking with Kim Paffenroth, a philosophical professor of religious studies at Iona College who is fascinated with - of all things - zom...

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Heaven: Does Lisa Miller's Book Make The Concept Any Less Trite?

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birth, Dante, Inferno, Lisa Miller, Death, Hell, Heaven, Afterlife, After Life, Immortal Soul, Soul, Continuity of Existence, Immortality of the Soul, Books News
Rabbi David Wolpe

In imagining this world, who would have guessed mountains and eyes and tuna fish and tables and fossils and crockpots and libraries and clouds? The task of envisioning a radically different world is doomed before it begins. Heaven is, quite literally, unimaginable.

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High Art for the Low Brow

Jessica Rovello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Da Vinci, Video Game, Arkadium, Ubisoft, Ea, Machiavelli, Jessica Rovello, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Dante's Inferno Video Game, Entertainment News
Jessica Rovello

It's more than a little surprising to see a new crop of console games trading in the old standards (football, hookers, zombies, guns) for a far older standard: renaissance art and literary classics.

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Classic Literature That Should Be Video Games

ew.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inferno Video Game, Video Games, Books, Dante's Inferno, Dante, The Divine Comedy, Classic Literature, Books News

Abandon all hope ye who enter the secret code to Level 9. The first part of Dante Alighieri's pre-Renaissance masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, has been...

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How Do You Like Your Poetry?

Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011

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Travis Nichols

Do you like books? The covers, pages, signatures, glue-ings, and sew-ings that have been around from Dante's time to Dickinson's? Or do you like readings?

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Ranking The Best Poets Ever

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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John Lundberg

In 1971, James Dickey wrote a letter listing the top ten living American poets. Slotted in third place behind Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden was...James D...

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