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Is The Guillotine Painful?
IFLScience· 7 days agoDo you remain conscious after being decapitated? The guillotine is the iconic contraption that was designed to swiftly decapitate humans using a large, falling blade. It is best known as the ...
Susquehanna Solstice Festival to feature artists, musicians, more - Times Leader
Times Leader· 5 days agoIn the early 1790s, a group of refugees fled the French Revolution and founded a community along the...
France’s headscarf ban in the 2024 Summer Olympics reflects a narrow view of national identity,...
The Conversation via Yahoo Sports· 19 hours agoLaïcité, which historically upheld individual freedom, denies minority rights today, as seen in the ban on French athletes wearing hijabs at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Drawn to Tradition: Chartres Pilgrimage Attracts Devotees of the Latin Mass
National Catholic Register· 16 hours agoOrganized by the Catholic lay nonprofit organization Notre-Dame de Chrétienté — “Our Lady of...
“Evil, Furiosa, ”and a killer Talking Heads tribute top this week’s Must List
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBut when the sisters are beset by horrors themselves, dangerous secrets risk being exposed in this...
See the Graffiti Bored British Soldiers Carved Into a Castle Door More Than 200 Years Ago
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoStarting in the 1790s, thousands of British soldiers were stationed at Dover Castle in case of a possible invasion by French troops led by Napoleon Bonaparte. Apparently, they had lots of time ...
"Astonishing" soldier's graffiti from 18th–19th centuries found in castle
Newsweek· 7 days agoAn "astonishing" collection of historic graffiti made by soldiers in the 18th and 19th centuries has...
Watch Steve Jobs describe ChatGPT decades before its creation
Boing Boing· 6 days agoThe reason LLMs are such good language models is precisely because they are so large, and have consumed so much text. The amount of “good quality, peer reviewed, verifiable” text is paltry in ...
France’s headscarf ban in the 2024 Summer Olympics reflects a narrow view of national identity,...
San Francisco Chronicle· 18 hours agoEds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. In September 2023, the International Olympic Committee, upholding freedom of religious and cultural expression for all athletes ...
The woman who sold time - and the man who tried to stop her
BBC News· 3 days agoFor more than a century a member of the Belville family would visit the Royal Observatory at...