Larry D. Nichols Larry D. Nichols Larry D. Nichols, born 1939 in the United States, is a puzzle designer. He grew up in Xenia, Ohio, and studied chemistry at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, before moving to Massachusetts to attend Harvard Graduate School. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including 'The Nichols Cube Puzzle' (1974), patent US365520. He has lived with his wife Karen in Arlington, Massachusetts since 1959. In 1957, 17 years before Dr. Rubik’s invention popularly known as the “Rubik's Cube”, Dr. Nichols conceived of a twist cube puzzle with six colored faces. It was a 2×2×2
Rachel Stevens (sculptor) at the Lviv Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. Stevens's work has interpreted the Holocaust in Ukraine in a series of sculptures called "The Broken Fragments of My Heart". They reimagine the deep ravines of Ukraine where more than a million Jews were shot during World War II by the German SS and police death squads in what became known as "Holocaust by bullet". Rachel Stevens (sculptor) Rachel Stevens is a sculptor, professor of art at New Mexico State University and a Fulbright Scholar. Stevens has exhibited both in the United States and internationally. Stevens's public sculpture, "You