tag > History
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Egypt announces new Great Pyramid discovery
"A team of international archaeologists used high-tech instruments to find a sealed-off chamber above the entrance to the Pyramid of Khufu. They expect to find more such chambers in the future."
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Japanese "War Tuba" was one of the first "radar" detection system for incoming aircraft in WWI.
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The Vatican has renounced the Doctrine of Discovery after 530y
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"Live musicians were so terrified of recording their music FDR had to step in"
#Comment: 100y ago, the emergence of recorded music & radio sparked intense debates among musicians, who viewed the new technologies as threats. In hindsight, it's clear that the transformation was swift, all-encompassing & largely positive. We can draw analogies from this experience today
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“What we really need is a new breed of artist-computer scientist” - Michael Noll (1970)
Image: Graphics Generated by A. Michael Noll at Bell Labs in 1962 on a IBM 7094 with IBM 7151 Console.
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Silk Road
From Samarkand to Venice, from Bukhara to Guangzhou, from Palmyra to Alexandria, from the Karakoram to the Hindu Kush - the old and new Silk Road is an important and fascinating economic, political, cultural and religious phenomenon.
