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Night, lost and found

Hélène Valance— This spring, I had the luck to spend a few days in the Eolian archipelago off the coast of Sicily, in a house poised on the edge of a steep cliff overlooking the Mediterranean, with little in sight except the silhouettes of nearby volcanic islands. On my first

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Win a copy of Peter John Brownlee’s new book Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre” and the Art of Invention!

Did you know, before winning fame and fortune for his invention of the single wire telegraph, Samuel Morse spent his early life as a painter? After graduating from Yale College in 1810, Morse spent over two decades as an artist, taking two separate trips and spending a total of five

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