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Why Breguet Is One Of The Best-Kept Secrets In The World Of Horology
Forbes· 7 days agoEspecially compared to its peers in the high-end watchmaking industry, such as Patek Philippe,...
With great economy, ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ stages global economic collapse
SFChronicle Datebook· 6 days agoIn these works, white men trade in terms like “credit default swaps” and teach us that “short” is...
Book Reviews for May 28, 2024
The Valdosta Daily Times· 11 hours agoAge of Revolutions: Fareed Zakaria
A Powerful Indictment of the Art World
The Atlantic· 7 days agoIn 1970, the American painter and conceptual artist Lee Lozano began planning her final project, a large-scale work of performance art called Dropout...
About Milwaukee's Bastille Days Eiffel Tower
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe celebration is meant to honor the storming of the Bastille, the 19th-century French prison, an event that helped to start the French Revolution. This ...
Watch Steve Jobs describe ChatGPT decades before its creation
Boing Boing· 3 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 ...
"Astonishing" soldier's graffiti from 18th–19th centuries found in castle
Newsweek· 5 days agoAn "astonishing" collection of historic graffiti made by soldiers in the 18th and 19th centuries has...
DONTONS TOD is Now Playing at Burgtheater
Broadway World· 7 days agoDontons Tod is now playing at Burgtheater. Danton and Robespierre only meet face to face for one short moment in Georg Büchner’s drama DANTON’S DEATH....
See the Graffiti Bored British Soldiers Carved Into a Castle Door More Than 200 Years Ago
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 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 ...
When Jews are considered victims
The Washington Times· 5 days agoIn 1945, as Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally to Allied forces, the horrors of the Holocaust began to emerge and disclosed to the world that some...