27 Artworks By John Singer Sargent, The Gilded Age Painter Who Toed The Line Between Tradition And Avant-Garde From the Portrait of Madame X to Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, John Singer Sargent's paintings and illustrations show why he's considered a virtuoso artist. By Andrew Milne, Edited By Jaclyn Anglis

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Where Did Native Americans Originate From? "Native American history reaches back at least 15,000 years ago, when hunter-gatherers crossed an Arctic land bridge from Siberia to Alaska."

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Native American history reaches back at least 15,000 years ago, when hunter-gatherers crossed an Arctic land bridge from Siberia to Alaska.

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The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart In 1931, John B. Sparks created the Histomap, condensing more than 4,000 years of world history into a vibrant infographic. By Rebecca Onion (from the archives)

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The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart

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How John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ Turned Paris High Society Upside Down by Katie White

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How John Singer Sargent's 'Madame X' Turned Paris High Society Upside Down

John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the masterpiece.

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16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time By Regina Sienra

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16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time

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The Forgotten Victorian Craze for Collecting Seaweed Victorian women were excellent at it. by Cara Giaimo (from the archives) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-victorian-craze-for-collecting-seaweed Books by or about Margaret Gatty at PG:

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The Mystery of the World’s Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia By Joshua Hammer

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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It

In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia

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#OTD in 1875. Robert Louis Stevenson is introduced (by Leslie Stephen) to fellow writer W. E. Henley, at this time (August 1873–April 1875) a patient of surgeon Joseph Lister in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He will be the model for Long John Silver. Henley also meets his future wife while in hospital and writes the poems collected as In Hospital.

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Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset By Paul Sawers

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AI training data has a big price tag, one best-suited for deep-pocketed tech firms. This is why Harvard University plans to release a dataset that

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Why did Louis de Broglie, Nobel laureate in physics, abandon his own pilot wave theory? By Laurie Letertre

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Why did Louis de Broglie, Nobel laureate in physics, abandon his own pilot wave theory?

A century ago, physicists laid the foundations of quantum mechanics. One of them, Louis de Broglie, disavowed a famous theory. Why?

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"It is important to realize that science, which knows no national boundaries & whose achievements are the common possession of mankind, has through the ages united men in their efforts to elucidate the foundations of our knowledge." Niels Bohr

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"But just as much as it is easy to find the differential of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not." ~Johann Bernoulli (6 August 1667 – 1 January 1748) #books #mathematics

Ancient Library in Tibet Creating Digital Archive of Its 84,000 Scriptures. Tibet's Sakya Monastery is home to many wonders. Founded in 1073, its collection includes some of the oldest Tibetan artwork, as well as 84,000 ancient manuscripts and books. By Regina Sienra via @mymodernmet

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Ancient Library in Tibet Creating Digital Archive of Its 84,000 Scriptures

As of 2022, 20% of the collection has been fully digitized and is available in the original Tibetan.

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#OTD in 1930. Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and disappeared during a ferry flight. The cause of her death has been a subject of discussion over many years. #aviator #womanengineer

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"The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth." The Well Of Loneliness English writer Radclyffe Hall died #OTD in 1943. She is best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness (1928), which created a scandal and was banned for a time in Britain for its treatment of lesbianism. via @Britannica Books by Radclyffe Hall at PG:

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Hans Geiger died #OTD in 1945. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #science #physics

"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel– a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept." Letter to Lady Anne (1776) Horace Walpole was born #OTD in 1717. English writer, connoisseur, and collector known for his novel The Castle of Otranto (1764), the first Gothic novel in the English language and one of the earliest literary horror stories. via @Britannica Books by Horace Walpole at PG:

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Frederick Soddy died #OTD in 1956. He was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research in radioactive decay and particularly for his formulation of the theory of isotopes. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #books #science #chemistry

Snorri Sturluson died #OTD in 1241. He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of the Prose Edda, which is a major source for what is today known as Norse mythology, and Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history. For stylistic and methodological reasons, he is often taken to be the author of Egil's saga. Books by Snorri Sturluson at PG:

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