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On September 11, 2001, an iconic photo captured a woman covered head-to-toe in yellow-grey ash after escaping the North Tower. Her name was Marcy Borders, and the world came to know her as the "Dust L...

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Michelangelo hated painting. He considered himself a sculptor. Yet, he created one of the world’s greatest masterpieces out of sheer, unyielding spite. Believe it or not, the commission to paint th...

SummaryMichelangelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling as a setup by rivals expecting him to fail, but instead created a masterpiece through sheer determination and spite, standing for four years and even immortalizing a critic as a tortured demon in Hell.Aug 28, 20265 tweets♥ 3.8K