Roerich Pact: November Newsletter
For our November newsletter, we explore a historic peace activist named Nicholas Roerich, and his influence in the creation of the Roerich Pact, signed in 1935 at the White House. Nicholas Roerich was...
View ArticleField Notes from Philly: Mütter Museum and Benjamin Rush Botanical Gardens
IAO director Saskia Wilson-Brown recently visited Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In her ongoing quest to visit every botanical garden, she took a moment to check out the Benjamin Rush Botanical Gardens at...
View ArticleMartial’s Zingers
The Roman satirist Martial often wrote of scent in disparaging terms: perfume, for him, was strongly equated with the ridiculous, the false, the pretentious, and – often (but not always) – the...
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