Portal:Arts/Did you know
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...that the De La Salle University Pops Orchestra is the first pop orchestra in the Philippines?
...that the image of Benjamin Franklin on the U.S. hundred dollar bill (pictured) is based on a painting by the French artist Joseph Duplessis?
...that Ken Richmond, the last gongman of the Rank Organisation, was a 1952 Summer Olympics wrestling medalist and actor in Jules Dassin's Night and the City?
...that in 1661, Lisle's Tennis Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London became the first public theatre in England to feature moveable scenery on sliding wings?
...that voice artists who made Gavrilov translations of foreign movies in Russia were once thought to have used a noseclip to conceal their identity?
...that the artist Sigrid Hjertén, a crucial figure in Swedish modernism, tragically died following an awkwardly performed lobotomy?
