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The End of the World in Images: The Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse is a unique and visually striking example of the picture-book Apocalypse – a distinctive group of medieval manuscripts that present the apocalyptic visions of the Book of Revelation primarily through images.
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The End of the World in Images: The Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse - Medievalists.net
A look at the Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse, a richly illustrated late medieval manuscript showing how Revelation was told...
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George Orwell called for a new way of thinking about science In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J. Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune calling for more science education. By Robert Colls
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George Orwell called for a new way of thinking about science
Orwell argued that you don’t have to be a scientist to think more scientifically.
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Celebrating Black History Month February marks Black History Month, a month-long observance in the United States and Canada that recognizes the significant contributions of Black Americans to history, as well as the historical legacies of the African diaspora. By The Editors
JSTOR Daily
Celebrating Black History Month - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Daily editors pick their favorite stories for Black History Month.
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"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." Quiet Strength (2000) ~Rosa Parks born #OTD in 1913 She is best remembered for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake's demand that she relinquish her seat so a white man could sit in the row.
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A Review of the Effects of Abacus Training on Cognitive Functions and Neural Systems in Humans Our review of the existing literature suggests that abacus-based mental calculation (AMC) training has the potential to enhance various cognitive skills including mathematics, working memory and numerical magnitude processing. via @npub1l44j...ttpp by Chunjie Wang (from the archives)
A Review of the Effects of Abacus Training on Cognitive Functions and Neural Systems in Humans - PMC
Abacus, which represents numbers via a visuospatial format, is a traditional device to facilitate arithmetic operations. Skilled abacus users, who ...
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The Explorer Who Faked His Way Through the Hajj Englishman Richard Burton wore several disguises, ranging from merchant to doctor to pilgrim in the holy city of Mecca. By Kayla Johnson
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Englishman Richard Burton wore several disguises, ranging from merchant to doctor to pilgrim in the holy city of Mecca.
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Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI Medievalists can now access automated transcriptions of 32,763 digitised medieval manuscripts, produced in just four months as part of a project called CoMMA—a large-scale corpus designed to make manuscript texts searchable and analysable at a scale that would be impossible to tackle by hand.
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Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI - Medievalists.net
A new AI-powered tool that has transcribed over 32,000 medieval manuscripts in four months, giving researchers a vast, searchable corpus and new wa...
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CoMMA, a Large-scale Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives
We present CoMMA, a large-scale corpus of medieval manuscripts produced through automatic text recognition. The corpus contains around 3.3b tokens ...
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The Complete Story of the Epic of Gilgamesh (Overview & Analysis) "The Epic of Gilgamesh, recounting the adventures of the semi-divine Sumerian king, may be the world’s oldest literary work. What does the narrative say?"
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The Complete Story of the Epic of Gilgamesh (Overview & Analysis) | TheCollector
The Epic of Gilgamesh, recounting the adventures of the semi-divine Sumerian king, may be the world’s oldest literary work. What does the narrati...
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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Jastrow and Clay
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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