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have been removed from the archived messages. As a result, some
links may be broken. Why not have your students research Van
Gogh's work and life, report their findings, and compare and
make judgments about the veracity of different sources? It would
be a thought-provoking art history lesson. We don't have to have
all the answers and we can learn along with our students. One of
the most recent articles we have on file in our PTA picture
program about Van Gogh and the ear is that they now think that
he had Meniere's disease--which produced a constant ringing in
his ear and is enough to depress and drive one "crazy" There are
so many things that are stories, things that "experts believe" I
make sure that students see that phrase when it appears in text
and that they comprehend that very little in stories of the
past, called hiSTORY is FACT; rather, someone with a particular
hypothesis or point of view(prejudice, if you will) has searched
for and coll