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Cast for the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries, the bells were bought by industrialist Charles Crane in the 1920s after the Russian government threatened to melt them down, and were given to University President A. Lawrence Lowell as a gift...
...panoply of Security Council resolutions against him, which would require that he hand over any banned weapons he possesses and provide a full accounting for the ones he claims he has destroyed. Unless Saddam meets those demands by the deadline, U.S. and British forces will, within days of the 17th, invade Iraq. In other words, only a miracle--a complete change of heart, a coup, a journey to exile--can stop...
IMAGE AND EMPIRE: PICTURING INDIA DURING THE COLONIAL ERA. The exhibit features about 50 different works of art that capture different views of colonial India. The paintings, decorative objects, figurines, photographs and sketches not only document the colonial era (17th-20th centuries) in India, but also demonstrate the cross-pollination between British and Indian artistic traditions. See full story in the Feb. 7 Arts section. Through May 25. Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m. $6.50, $5 students/seniors, free for Harvard ID holders, Cambridge Public Library card holders and to people under...
...region became a buffer zone for conflict between the Shi'ite Safavid Empire and the Ottoman Turks. Fearful that Shi'ite Islam would spread to Asia Minor, the Turks captured Baghdad and, with the exception of a Safavid period in the 17th century, stayed there until World...
IMAGE AND EMPIRE: PICTURING INDIA DURING THE COLONIAL ERA. The exhibit features about 50 different works of art that capture different views of colonial India. The paintings, decorative objects, figurines, photographs and sketches not only document the colonial era (17th-20th centuries) in India, but also demonstrate the cross-pollination between British and Indian artistic traditions. See full story in the Feb. 7 Arts section. Through May 25. Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m. $6.50, $5 students/seniors, free for Harvard ID holders, Cambridge Public Library card holders and to people under...