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  • November 2007
    • From Detroit to Dresden to Siberia

      From Detroit to Dresden to Siberia

      (Newser) - John Noble, an American who wrote two memoirs about the decade he spent as a Soviet prisoner, including 3 years in the gulag, died last week at 84, the Telegraph reports. Taken into Soviet custody in 1945, Noble and his father were incarcerated in Dresden, Germany, where they had run a family-owned camera factory. "Justice doesn't exist," a guard warned them. More »

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      obituary   Detroit   World War II   Soviet Union   Dresden

  • August 2007
    • Museum Looks Picture-Perfect Online

      Museum Looks Picture-Perfect Online

      (Newser) - Dresden’s Old Masters Picture gallery is the first museum to create an online clone, now appearing in all its glory—down to the trash cans and fountains—as a location in the virtual reality game Second Life . The building’s 750 paintings have been reproduced digitally, as have the 37,000 square feet of the grounds itself, Wired reports More »

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      painting   museum   Second Life   Art Basel   Dresden

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