For instance, portraits of Kim II Sung, the founder and supreme leader of North Korea, and Kim Jong Il, the father of current leader Kim Jong Un, are mandatory in public places like train stations, hospitals, schools and factories.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
11 Apr. 2026
Centred on intimate portraits of women rebuilding their lives, the film follows individuals shaping a future in the shadow of a shared past.
Mayor Quinton Lucas announced Tuesday that the city now has a set of seven free blueprints, including a duplex, a two-story house with a garage and a cottage, that are free to download to get the process of building a new home started.
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Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2026
In the past, peptides were generally believed to be fragments of larger proteins; this doctor’s work helped establish that our genes actually code for many small peptides directly, some of which could become targets or blueprints for new drugs.
This exhibition will juxtapose garments and works of art from across the museum’s collection, creating pairings that will illuminate the connection between clothing and the body, as well as the interplay between artistic representations of the body and fashion as an art form.
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Jane Levere,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Apr. 2026
This implied the Blackness of God, subverting cultural representations of the deity as white and possibly European.
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Rodney Muhumuza,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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