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Alan Wace (13 July 1879 – 9 November 1957) was an English archaeologist who served as director of the British School at Athens between 1914 and 1923. He excavated widely in Thessaly, Laconia and Egypt and at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in Greece. Along with Carl Blegen, Wace argued against the established scholarly view that Minoan Crete had dominated mainland Greek culture during the Bronze Age. His excavations at Mycenae in the early 1920s established a chronology for the site's domed tombs that largely proved his theory correct. Wace served as the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University between 1934 and 1944, and ended his career at Alexandria's Farouk I University. During both world wars, he worked for the British intelligence services, including as a section head for MI6 during the Second World War. His daughter, Lisa French, also became an archaeologist and excavated at Mycenae. (Full article...)

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The Death of Marat

The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. It was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a Montagnard, and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his murder by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. Art historian T. J. Clark called David's painting the first modernist work for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it".

Painting credit: Jacques-Louis David

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Marat pic[edit]

The following was previously posted on WP:ERRORS:

OK, not an error as such, but ... surely on the anniversary of Marat's assassination the pic of him used should be the most famous and gorgeous portrayal of the act? --Jfruh (talk) 01:43, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

wow; after following your link and seeing that amazing painting it just made me want to find out more. I totally agree with yer... why not the painting?Boomshanka 06:46, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David
Not unless someone is willing to crop it. Looks poor as a thumbnail on many monitor display resolutions. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 13:47, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oh please, nobody crop it. Yomanganitalk 14:01, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, no cropping. That would be disrespectful to the artist. Why not link to the painting (at The Death of Marat)? And while you are at it, delink "bathtub" - that insults the intelligence of our readers. Carcharoth 16:59, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1962 event[edit]

I'd like to suggest:

This will be the 50th anniversary in 2012. But it will also be a WP:DYK article as well this year. So perhaps for a later update? Benea (talk) 04:17, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 05:17, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes[edit]

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2014 notes[edit]

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2015 notes[edit]

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Marat[edit]

How does the main page stat that marat was the lead of the terror? it didn't even began before his death. Bertdrunk (talk) 12:31, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. Rewritten. —howcheng {chat} 16:20, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes[edit]

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2017 notes[edit]

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2018 notes[edit]

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2019 notes[edit]

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2020 notes[edit]

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2021 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 07:14, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 16:24, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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