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It “has much to do with real estate scions fancying themselves purveyors of a new Renaissance, but the buildings themselves are less inspired by Renaissance principles than vague stabs at worldliness.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Iowa’s State Historical Society now owns the house in Eldon that inspired “American Gothic.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
This Halloween, if you’ll be debuting a costume inspired by weird and wonderful Los Angeles, we’d love to see it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
It was his new wife who suggested the move into pumpkins as an experimental way to boost the farm's income - and as a bit of fun inspired by her US childhood.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Bertillon was inspired by the tools of anthropometry—the study of the measurements of the human body.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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