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Gillian Russell

@gearuss.bsky.social
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Professor Emerita at the University of York, UK, living in Canberra, Australia. Author of The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century: Print, Sociability and the Cultures of Collecting (2020). Born and educated in Northern Ireland.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sturt desert peas near Roxby Downs. Indigenous actor Mark Coles Smith was born in Kalgoorlie and has Sturt desert peas as his totem. He explains that they are called Malu Kuru Kuru. Kangaroo Eyes. A Western Desert name for them. The eyes of the flower see in all directions.
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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨
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Bin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'The Zionist Federation of Australia withdrew its case of racial hatred against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, who called it a victory for free speech.' consortiumnews.com/2026/09/10/z...
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Zionists Drop Case Against Kostakidis
The Zionist Federation of Australia withdrew its case of racial hatred against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, who called it a victory for free speech. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium Ne...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media that fell into his trap. If you think the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why? broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...
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The killing of a black man
A French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap
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Cathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Isobel Armstrong on saving English. Brilliant as ever. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/08/savi...
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Saving English
The government’s drive for ‘vocational’ education is accelerating the death of the humanities, at a time when the study of literature is more vital than ever.
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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We have such talented colleagues in @bars.bsky.social Hoping Felicty James's article travels far and wide as we try to engage meaningfully with this topic.
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Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Applications close Friday 2nd October 2026. For more information, see: anzsecs.org/gale-anzsecs... Applicants must be ANZSECS members to be eligible. To join and gain member-only trial access to Gale Databases, visit: anzsecs.org/membership/
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GALE-ANZSECS FELLOWSHIP 2026-27
The Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ANZSECS) announces three non-residential Digital Humanities fellowships funded by Gale. The Gale-ANZSECS Fellowship will suppo…
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Gillian Russell @gearuss.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is a very important essay, relevant not just to the UK.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is an extraordinary story, centred on a group of remarkable women, but it just makes me mourn for the millions of women and girls trapped in Afghanistan, denied not only the freedom to play sports, but to speak, learn and live as they choose. We must not forget them.
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Banned from football at home, Afghan women's team reunite 8,000 miles away
Women in the team, which is recognised by Fifa, say football has given them freedom and independence.
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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
March 2027: Oxford World's Classics edition of Pierce Egan's "Life in London" (1821) will be published. First modern, annotated edition of a novel that defined the age. In this plate by the Cruikshank brothers, the chums get in a fight & Egan has his notebook nicked. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Wildfires. A poem in the Observer. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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In the Cairngorms by Kathleen Jamie
A new poem about the wildfires in the Highlands by Scotland’s makar
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Explores the power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in a fascination with Don Quixote and a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers. 📚 buff.ly/PILcpfS MNG's exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/TiIMH7o @bucknellupress.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social
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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I'm really honoured to have been asked to give the Marilyn Butler lecture for the online part of BARS this year. It will be an early start here in Aotearoa on Fri 7 Aug, NZ time, but I'm looking forward to talking about "Recollecting Treaties in Tranquillity" with colleagues and friends
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"The government will repeal the Vagrancy Act on Monday 29 June 2026, ending nearly two centuries of legislation that has criminalised rough sleeping and begging" www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Rough sleeping no longer a crime as Vagrancy Act repealed
The government will repeal the Vagrancy Act on Monday 29 June 2026, ending nearly two centuries of legislation that has criminalised rough sleeping and begging.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Cartoonist scourge. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Image of man’s face in Russian hat with red and gold badge, in vignette surrounded by text. Title: “Exiled Russian cartoonist murdered in Poland” text: “Last week a Russian cartoonist (Robert Kuzovkov, aka Semyon Scripetsky) exiled in Poland was murdered (allegedly) by two Belarusians. His satirical cartoons criticised Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, among others. A friend of his said “I kept telling him: ‘Mate, they’re going to come for you!’ Eventually there was no point - he was completely reckless and stubborn.”
It must be acknowledged that cartoonists are a scourge. They seek to get in the way of autocrats and murderers just going about their business, and cause unwarranted discomfort and offence. They must be reined in! Obviously we do not endorse killing them. Simply breaking their pencils or making them wear an unflattering hat should do. We can’t have them making our leaders look bad.”
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Gillian Russell @gearuss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks chuffed.org/project/1854...
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Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks
We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Treatment. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Penny Wong at lectern. Behind her, images of (left) activists, prostrate in rows on board ship, as seen in video from Itamar Ben-Gvir. (Right) image of rows of Palestinian prisoners behind razor wire. Wong says, “We call on the Israeli government not to treat the Sumud flotilla activists the way they treat Palestinians.”
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Gillian Russell @gearuss.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Full article: Deeper history and democratic politics: HASS and university crisis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Deeper history and democratic politics: HASS and university crisis
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 57, No. 2, 2026)
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 02/02/2026
The latest issue of History Workshop Journal is out now, and it marks two exciting milestones: 50 years and 100 issues of innovative radical history. You can read the journal on the HWJ website through the link below! academic.oup.com/hwj...
The cover of History Workshop Journal 100. The cover is a woodland green, and shows an abstract illustration of a coniferous tree based on Sadiah Qureshi's article on the Wollemi pine.
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🧵5 Posts A century on, the 1926 General Strike stands as one of the most dramatic episodes in British working-class history. At one minute to midnight on 3 May 1926, around 1.7 million workers walked out in solidarity with 1.2 million coal miners who were facing wage cuts of 1/5
This powerful image captures strikers during the 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom, a pivotal nine-day industrial dispute that brought the country to a standstill. The strike remains one of the most significant moments in British labour history. Although the TUC called it off after only nine days without gaining concessions for the miners, it remains a symbol of working-class solidarity and a defining moment for the British labour movement. Public Domain.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We will never make headway on workload issues if we cede important parts of our job to the machine
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We are now allowed to create tutorial plans and other teaching materials with GenAI … if you can’t plan a tutorial what are you doing with your time and your career
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Did my phd with Briony, she’s just the type you’d want on your editorial shoulder 👇
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Super happy to announce that the first book in our series, Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures, will be coming out this June. Check out Porscha Fermanis's _Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890_ and please ask your libraries to order?
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
So sorry to our Australia’s Lebanese communities who must think all we care about is the price of fuel. 😔
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Gillian Russell @gearuss.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Congratulations to all!
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas
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Lebanon: ICRC outraged by deadly strikes in densely populated areas
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations.
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Looking forward to talking character in Austen, Edgeworth and Scott @tlrhub.bsky.social next week, with Sharon Marcus and Jim Chandler Date: 14 Apr - 14 Apr 2026 Time: 13:30 - 15:30 Venue: Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
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Character at the Turn of the Novel: Edgeworth, Scott, and Austen
A panel discussion bringing together experts on Edgeworth, Scott, and Austen.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
If you want a freebie excerpt, my article on Sheppard Lee (and Get Out) is open access here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12...
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Yesterday I was in York, and popped into Minster Gate bookshop. Scanning the British History shelves, I slowly realised that there were many books on the same themes - radicalism, Chartism, trade unionism, 19th century economy and society, clearly part of a curated collection 1/n
Books on shelves
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Can't wait to get hold of this
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Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions. Applications due 21 April More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
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University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - USYD UofG Joint PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century
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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/02/2026
‘Military service is one of the strongest predictors for becoming a mass shooter in the US.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Laleh Khalili · Guns, Money and Opium
There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas. The...
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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is an extremely rare and the best example of Roman glassware with wavy sides, a type known as a ‘handkerchief‘ bowl - so named because the design mimics the folded, drooping appearance of a cloth handkerchief. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/ 3rd-4th c. CE. #MetMuseum 📸 me
Translucent blue green glass; trail in the same color. Intact; a few large bubbles; small patches of soil encrustation, weathering, and iridescence.

Vessels that have been deliberately worked to create a wavy rim and sides are extremely rare in Roman glassware. This bowl is perhaps the best example known to have survived.

A handkerchief bowl (or vase) is a decorative glass piece designed to mimic the folded, drooping appearance of a cloth handkerchief. Popularized in the modern era by Italian glassmakers in the 1940s and 50s, it remains a popular form.

3rd-4th century CE.

H.: 3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm)

Met Museum, New York (17.194.314)
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Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
So in the UkK the repercussions from Epstein scandal have taken down a chief-of-staff, a prince, an ambassador to the US and will soon take doen the prime minister himself. That's what a functioning democracy looks like. And in the US...???
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Built in 1788 by actor manager Samuel Butler the Georgian Theatre Royal In Richmond Yorkshire closed in 1848. Some 115 years later it was restored and reopened 1963 before being extended in 2003. It is the most complete Georgian theatre in the country.
This image shows the interior of the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire. It is a Grade I listed building, described as the most important theatre in the development of the English playhouse. Built in 1788 by actor-manager Samuel Butler, it is one of the UK's oldest working theatres. The theatre maintains an authentic 18th-century country theatre atmosphere, featuring original boxes, a sunken pit, and a small gallery. The scenery shown, which is part of the theatre's collection, dates between 1818 and 1836.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
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 FRED BIERY
 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/01/2026
Activists unveiled a giant portrait of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in Barcelona on the second anniversary of her killing. Hind was trapped in a car and targeted at close range by Israeli forces in Gaza after they had killed her relatives.
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The Uses of Romanticism @ucc.ie Reading 18 Feb by Maureen McLane Papers 19 Feb by Mary-Ann Constantine, Elisa Cozzi, Porscha Fermanis @penfielding.bsky.social Nigel Leask, Omar Miranda, Jane Moore @drtinamorin.bsky.social Tríona Ní Shíocháin, Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Diego Saglia & Brandon Yen
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Conferences, Seminars and Workshops | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Please join us to discuss detached pieces, single leaves, and un/bound forms, and mark the publication of The Book Unbound @universitypress.cambridge.org Friday 30 January, Senate House, University of London @ies-sas.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social please spread the word
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...
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The Great Silencing
Last week it snowed heavily twice in Paris, turning the city into a frigid, monochrome fantasy land over three days, and at the weekend I popped into the Musée Marmottan Monet for a spot of impression...
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Gillian Russell @gearuss.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Congratulations James!
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social and Mary Miniham @irishtimes.com for taking my piece on heavy coats and ragged people for today’s paper - with a shoutout for new @universitypress.cambridge.org book on #IrishRomanticism #speirgorm
Newspaper headlineBook cover
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Gillian Russell @gearuss.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Wow! Congratulations Sophie!
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW will move to ban phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ in crackdown on ‘hateful’ rhetoric. Here’s what we know so far
NSW parliament will sit next week to consider legislation to limit protests and ban hate speech in response to the Bondi attack, Chris Minns says
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Summary of the news today
Wide, frontal view of a large, white marble modernist building under a clear blue sky. The façade is symmetrical, with a deep overhanging roof supported by tall, slender white columns evenly spaced across the front. Near the top of the wall, a horizontal row of narrow vertical slits forms a decorative grille. Centered across the façade is black lettering that reads on the bottom “THE JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS,” with part of the text on top obscured by a black rectangle, redacting Donald Trump's name that was just added to the building. The building sits above a broad, dark platform, and the foreground shows light stone walkways and rectangular planters filled with neatly trimmed shrubs. Two small human figures stand near the base of the building.
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