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Art reduces stress hormones in minutes

Forget the gym – a 20-minute “cultural workout” in front of original masterpieces calms the body faster than you think. A groundbreaking King’s College London...

Why this mysterious Klimt painting sold for 236 million dollars?

Hidden for decades from public view, the artist's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has now sold at auction for a record sum. Why is it...

ON THIS DAY: The death of Edgar Allan Poe (1849)

The master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s most influential writers and poets, died on this day in 1849 in Baltimore,...

ON THIS DAY: Mozart’s The Magic Flute premieres in Vienna (1791)

On 30 September 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) was first performed at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna....

ON THIS DAY: Goethe (1749) and Tolstoy (1828) are born

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) Born on 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of Germany’s greatest literary figures...

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