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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: the Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – the Marginalian Arts
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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: the Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – the Marginalian

Beethoven composed the "Ode to Joy" almost entirely deaf, arrested once as a tramp, estranged from loved ones, bludgeoned by war and grief - and yet he never abandoned the dream he had carried since adolescence, when Schiller's poem first convinced him that freedom and human...

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Inside a prison classroom, a journalism lesson about noticing small details opens into something no one planned: a...

Women Behind the lens: ‘I May Not Be Able to Decide Whose Faces Are Painted on Walls but I Can... Sports
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Women Behind the lens: ‘I May Not Be Able to Decide Whose Faces Are Painted on Walls but I Can...

Photojournalist Olaoluwa Olowu was walking the streets of Accra when she noticed that the murals, posters, and...

A Rich Maharaja Took in 1,000 Polish Kids During WWII, Recreating Their Home on Indian Soil Inspiration
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A Rich Maharaja Took in 1,000 Polish Kids During WWII, Recreating Their Home on Indian Soil

During World War II, more than a thousand Polish children - many who had already survived Soviet labor camps and...

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: the Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – the Marginalian Arts
themarginalian.org 18 hours ago

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: the Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – the Marginalian

Beethoven composed the "Ode to Joy" almost entirely deaf, arrested once as a tramp, estranged from loved ones,...

How Creativity — and Children — Have Kept Albania’s Revolution Alive | Waging Nonviolence Environment
Waging Nonviolence 22 hours ago

How Creativity — and Children — Have Kept Albania’s Revolution Alive | Waging Nonviolence

When trucks and bulldozers rolled into a protected Albanian coastline to clear the way for a Jared Kushner luxury...

The Grasshopper and the “Lusory Attitude” Essential for Playing the Game of Life – the Marginalian Inspiration
themarginalian.org 1 day ago

The Grasshopper and the “Lusory Attitude” Essential for Playing the Game of Life – the Marginalian

Philosopher Bernard Suits spent his career arguing that the Grasshopper of Aesop's fable was not a fool but a...