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  2. Canadian art - Wikipedia

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    Canadian art refers to the visual (including painting, photography, and printmaking) as well as plastic arts (such as sculpture) originating from the geographical area of contemporary Canada. Art in Canada is marked by thousands of years of habitation by Indigenous peoples followed by waves of immigration which included artists of European ...

  3. National Gallery of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The National Gallery of Canada (French: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. [ 8 ] The museum's building takes up 46,621 square metres (501,820 sq ft), with 12,400 square metres (133,000 sq ft) of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the largest art museums in ...

  4. Fraternities and sororities in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The expansion of Greek letter organizations into Canada was an important stage of the North American fraternity movement, beginning in 1879 with the establishment of a chapter of Zeta Psi at the University of Toronto. In 1883, the same fraternity established a chapter at McGill University.

  5. Culture of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The culture of Canada embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, humour, musical, political and social elements that are representative of Canadians. Throughout Canada's history, its culture has been influenced firstly by its indigenous cultures, and later by European culture and traditions, mostly by the British and French. [1]

  6. Hermaphrodite (Nadar) - Wikipedia

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    Hermaphrodite. (Nadar) Hermaphrodite is a series of photographs of a young intersex person, who had a male build and stature and may have been assigned female or self-identified as female, taken by the French photographer Nadar (real name Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) in 1860. Possibly commissioned by Armand Trousseau, the nine photographs have ...

  7. Shifts in brain activity may signal Alzheimer's long before ...

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    Subtle changes in brain activity in the presence of both amyloid-beta and tau proteins may point to Alzheimer's disease, long before symptoms appear, a new study indicates.

  8. Atlantic Canada - Wikipedia

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    Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces (French: provinces de l'Atlantique), is the region of Eastern Canada comprising the provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec. The four provinces are New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. [1] As of 2021, the landmass of the four ...

  9. Nadar - Wikipedia

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    Children. Paul Nadar. Father. Victor Tournachon. Signature. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910 [1]), known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs.