Portal:The arts/Did you know/May, 2009
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![Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/La_Nature_se_d%C3%A9voilant_a_la_Science%2C_Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Orsay%2C_photo_by_emilee_rader_1.jpg/75px-La_Nature_se_d%C3%A9voilant_a_la_Science%2C_Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Orsay%2C_photo_by_emilee_rader_1.jpg)
- ... that the sculpture Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science (pictured) depicts what historians have described as "the modern fantasy of (female) nature willingly revealing herself to the (male) scientist"?
- ... that T. S. Eliot's Paradiso-like poems of the Four Quartets (Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding) are modeled on the structure of his Inferno-like poem The Waste Land?
- ... that architect Henrik Bull designed several churches, but his most widespread works were coins designed for Norges Bank?
- ... that Mexican writer Juan José Arreola's short story The Switchman can be interpreted as a satire of the Mexican train system?
- ... that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs described nearly every way to evade the draft in "Draft Dodger Rag"?