Jean-Paul Marat met his end in his bathtub. The assailant was sent to the guillotine but the murder would live on in an indelible painting.
And yet, a lifelong interest emerged as a direct result of this version of the painting. “As best as I can reconstruct, my ...
The radical French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat died, famously, in a bathtub. He was soaking in one when his assassin, Charlotte Corday, plunged a kitchen knife into his chest in 1793. And he was ...
In 1790, French Revolution-era firebrand Jean-Paul Marat wrote to his readers, "Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness." Yet while Marat wrote of ...
What do Emily Dickinson, Karl Marx, and Jesus of Nazareth have in common? They’ve all played a part in a popular parlor game. Retrospective diagnoses—thought experiments in which modern scientists use ...
Veteran Armenian fighter Marat Grigorian is looking forward to facing ONE Championship newcomer Liu Mengyang of China in a possible showdown next after he impressed with a victory in his promotional ...
Twitching, trembling. Stuttering, staggering. Yelling, yowling. Jabbering and gesticulating. Young actors tend to love the chance to get in-your-face with extreme behavior, as in Balagan Theatre’s ...
We didn't know that night that he'd be, for the rest of the decade, pro tennis' biggest puzzle. All we saw in Marat Safin then was the total package: TV handsome, fluent in English, Spanish and ...
Marat Grigorian (left) looks to make Rukiya Anpo (right) pay for the disrespect he has been dishing out ahead of ONE 173. [Image courtesy: ONE Championship] Marat Grigorian does not need much to get ...
With an assist in last night's game against the Anaheim Ducks, Marat Khusnutdinov recorded his first career point. Marat Khusnutdinov has been very good on the face-off dot in the three NHL games he ...
If you see theater regularly, being bored is so common that seeing an engaging show is almost disorienting. Sitting through a play is normal; sitting forward to catch every word of a play is ...