Portal:The arts/Did you know/August, 2008

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 * ... that John Buckler created 13,000 drawings and paintings of historic British buildings, such as Ely Cathedral?
 * ... that the album title Even Heroes Need a Parachute was chosen to emphasize "the common ground that all humans share"?
 * ... that the North German baroque organ in Örgryte Nya Kyrka is the largest meantone organ in the world?
 * ... that New York abstract painter Dennis Ashbaugh is one of the first artists to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings?
 * ... that Ronald Ribman's play The Journey of the Fifth Horse, based on a short story by Ivan Turgenev, won an Obie Award and starred a young Dustin Hoffman?