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This collection of 30 total portraits—two more paintings will soon join the exhibit—is housed in the basement of CGIS South and is part of the building’s efforts to promote the arts...
After working hard to fill the basement with beauty for many years, Burch “shyly but insistently” requested to have a space of her own, according to Steven B. Bloomfield ’77, executive director of the Weatherhead Center of International Affairs who spoke at the exhibit launch...
...that Sally Lunn's, sallylunns.co.uk, is located in the oldest house in Bath, the elegant Georgian city in the southwest of England that's a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Home of the original Bath bun (a rich bread similar to brioche), the restaurant boasts a kitchen museum in its basement. History buffs can see an oven used in the 1600s and other period implements...
Seeing the cramped, windowless basement where Natascha Kampusch was locked up for 8½ years, it's almost impossible to believe that anyone could have survived the ordeal. Yet the Austrian kidnapping victim not only made it out of the dungeon where an engineer named Wolfgang Priklopil had imprisoned her as a child but also emerged a remarkably confident and self-assured young woman...
...damp and disgusting ... just imagine if something would have happened to him, or he became weak, I would have been like an Egyptian pharaoh, buried alive and then later dead," Kampusch says in the documentary. At the beginning of her captivity in the 50-sq.-ft. (4.6 sq m) basement, Kampusch recalls how she used to count the seconds to try to keep track of time but soon could no longer tell whether it was day or night. Priklopil reinforced her sense of isolation by installing an intercom and a timer that turned the lights on and off at regular...