1.

Black letter
a font used by gutenberg in the first printing press. Downside: limited number of
words per page

黑体字
古腾堡在第一台印刷机上使用的字体。缺点：每页字数有限
2. Roman Typeface
2nd font invented in 1470 by Nicolas Jenson (more words per page)

尼古拉-詹森于 1470 年发明的第 2 种字体（每页字数更多）

3. Italics
3rd font invented (1501) to save space (by Manutius & Griffo).
为节省空间而发明的第 3 种字体（1501 年）（由 Manutius 和 Griffo 设计）。

4. Digital typography
Fonts in computer. 1st font: Digi Grotesk (by Rudolf Hell). In 1974 fonts changed
from pictures to vector, so they can look good in any scale
电脑中的字体 第一种字体： Digi Grotesk（由 Rudolf Hell 创作）。1974 年，字体从图片变为矢量，因此在任何
比例下都很美观。

5. Truetype
font looks the same in PC and printer

6. Opentype
font looks the same in PC and mac

7. Web Open Font Format (WOFF)

fonts looking the same in all browser in the internet
8. Aptos
Font that microsoft chose in 2021 to be the default in its apps (e.g., Word). Old name:
Bierstadt (beer city). Town in california
微软公司于 2021 年选择作为其应用程序（如 Word）的默认字体。旧名：Bierstadt（啤酒城）。加利福尼亚州的小镇
9. Word's fonts
1st: Times New Roman (Serif)
2nd (2007): Calibri (sans serif)
3rd: Aptos (sans serif)

10. Serif vs. sans serif

with tiny lines (feet), e.g. Times new Roman, common in print vs. without (e.g.
Calibri/Aptos), common in screens
有细线（脚），如 Times new Roman，常用于印刷品；无细线（如 Calibri/Aptos），常用于屏幕

11. London Underground's fonts

100 years used Johnstons Sans font. In 2016 did tiny change to Johnston 100 font, to
make it digitally friendly
100 年来一直使用 Johnstons Sans 字体。2016 年做了微小的改动，换成了约翰斯顿 100 字体，使其具有数字友好
性

12. US Department of states' fonts

1) Courier ("typewriter" and old computers font", IBM, serif)
2) Times New Roman (Word): 2004
3) Calibri (2023): changed to help visually impaired workers
2) 1) Courier（“打字机 ”和旧电脑字体，IBM，衬线字体）
3) 2) Times New Roman（Word）： 2004
4) 3) Calibri（2023 年）：为帮助视障工人而更改

13. Thomas Phinney

Works in Adobe's font group, helped in court as font expert to check forgery.
Document supposedly from 1983 was printed in inkjet printer (invented late 80s).
Document from 1968 used font inventes 25 years later.
在 Adobe 字体组工作，曾作为字体专家帮助法庭检查伪造文件。据称是 1983 年的文件是用喷墨打印机打印的（80 年代末
发明）。1968 年的文件使用了 25 年后发明的字体。

14. ScienceGothic.com
site allows user to personally adjust a Sceince Gothic font (Thomas Phinney)
网站允许用户亲自调整 Sceince Gothic 字体（Thomas Phinney）
15. Sentence with all letters in english once
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
1. 用所有英文字母造句一次
敏捷的棕狐狸跳过懒惰的狗

16. Self checkout

Paying in supermarket through a machine. Wlamart & Cotsoco's customers
complained it is slow and unreliable, and prefer satffed cash registers.
1. 自助结账
在超市通过机器付款。Wlamart & Cotsoco 的顾客抱怨这种方式既慢又不可靠，他们更喜欢坐式收银机。
17. Joe Woodland
Inventor of barcode
1. 乔-伍德兰德
条形码发明者
18. Bar code
Invented in 1974 in USA by Woodland. Inspired by Morse code. Before seller had to
type price of each product, and it was slow
1. 条形码
1974 年由伍德兰德在美国发明。灵感来自摩尔斯电码。在此之前，卖家必须输入每件产品的价格，而且速度很慢
19. UPC
Universal Product Code used in bar code
1. UPC
条形码中使用的通用产品代码
20. Amazon Go
Shop that you don't to check out at all. You just take staff from shelves, and AI
understands how much you pay. Just walk out.
1. 亚马逊 Go
完全不用结账的购物方式。你只需从货架上取走商品，人工智能就会知道你付了多少钱。只需走出去即可。

21. Just walk out

Technology of Amazon go for a shop with no check out
1. 直接走出去
亚马逊无结账商店技术
22. QR code
quick response code. invented in 1994 in Japan by the company Denso Wave

23. QR codes in restaurants

began in the pandemic. there were QR codes on the tables that sent to digital menus
instead of physical menus.
1. 餐厅中的 QR 码
餐桌上有二维码，可发送电子菜单，而不是实体菜单。
24. Criticism of QR codes in restaurants
disturb communal aspect, make you check notifications, are less convenient, can track
consumer behavior, exclude less tech savvy people, and more
1. 对餐厅使用二维码的批评
扰乱公共性、让你查看通知、不太方便、可追踪消费者行为、将不太懂技术的人排除在外等等
25. L. Sasha Gora
cultural historian that studies culinary environmental humanities (cultural aspects to
do with food). studied menus and the passenger pigeon pie. she criticised QR codes in
retaurants.
1. L. Sasha Gora
研究菜单和客鸽馅饼的文化历史学家，她批评了餐厅中的二维码。

26. Caroline S. Brooks

An American sculptor. Made butter sculptures to promote her farmer husband's butter.
1. 卡罗琳-布鲁克斯（Caroline S. Brooks
美国雕塑家。她制作黄油雕塑来宣传她农民丈夫的黄油。
27. Dreaming Iolanthe
butter sculpture of a blind princess from the verse drama, "King René's Daughter".
made by Caroline S. Brooks.
1. 梦中的伊奥朗特
《》 Caroline S. Brooks 制作。

28. Erika Iris Simmons

an artist that used old cassette tapes to portray celibraties and musician, specifically
the artists of the tapes' song.
1. Erika Iris Simmons
一位用旧磁带来描绘天体和音乐家（特别是磁带歌曲的艺术家）的艺术家。
29. Cassette tape
A tape storage media introduced in the 1960s in which the tape was enclosed in a
small plastic molding, or cassette.
1. 盒式磁带
20 世纪 60 年代推出的一种磁带存储介质，磁带封装在一个小塑料模具（或称盒式磁带）中。
30. Dominique Blaine
a Canadian artist that made Missa
1. 多米尼克-布莱恩
加拿大艺术家
31. Missa
100 army boots symbolising the victims of war. made by Dominique Blaine. shown in
Mauntrial.
1. Missa
多米尼克-布莱恩（Dominique Blaine）制作的象征战争受害者的 100 双军靴。
32. Jan Simek
A professor from the University of Tennessee. discovered ancient cave art in alabama.
wrote antiquity.
1. 扬-西梅克
田纳西大学教授。在阿拉巴马州发现古代洞穴艺术。
《》
33. Ancient cave in Alabama
had ancient cave art of a man and the sacred rattlesnake, which may have represented
spirits of the underworld. was discovered by Jan Simek using photogammetry.
1. 阿拉巴马州的古代洞穴
Jan Simek 利用摄影测量法发现了这一古老的洞穴艺术，其中有一个人和神圣的响尾蛇，它们可能代表着阴间的灵魂。
34. Glyph
rock painting
1. 图形
岩画
35. Photogammetry
overlapping images joined together
1. 摄影测量
将重叠图像连接在一起
36. Sulawesi Cave Art
art from 40,000 years ago in Leang Timpuseng Cave, Sulawesi island, Indonesia. in it
there is painting of a female pig-deer (babirusa) and the oldest hand stencil
1. 苏拉威西洞穴艺术
在印度尼西亚苏拉威西岛的 Leang Timpuseng 洞穴中发现了距今 4 万年前的艺术品，其中有一幅雌性猪鹿
（babirusa）画和最古老的手工模板。

37. Babirusa
AKA pig-dear. appears in Sulawesi Cave Art from 40,000 years ago. one of the oldest
Figuritive arts.
1. 巴布鲁萨
又名猪耳，出现在距今 4 万年前的苏拉威西洞穴艺术中，是最古老的具象艺术之一。

38. Finches
a bird family from the Galapagos islands. they were studied and sketched by Charlse
Darwin. each of the 13 islands had a slightly different speices of it. it was a key to the
discovery of evalution.
1. 雀形目
是加拉帕戈斯群岛上的一个鸟科。达尔文对它们进行了研究并绘制了草图。13 个岛屿上的每一个都有略微不同的物种。

39. Charles Darwin

discovered evalution. on his Beagle trip to the Galapagos islands he studied and s
ketched many animals such as finches which helped him discover evalution.
1. 查尔斯-达尔文
达尔文在加拉帕戈斯群岛的小猎犬之旅中研究并捕捉了许多动物，如雀鸟，这帮助他发现了 “评价”。
40. Lascaux Caves
from France. recreated fully by Jean-Pierre Chadelle because of overcrowdedness and
CO2. Had glyphs of bulls, horses and the now extinct aurochs. Also had the second
oldest map: Star Map.

41. Jean-Pierre Chadelle

recreated the Lascaux Caves

42. Machu Picchu

abandoned city in Peru. was once in the Incan empire. had rigid quotas put on it. is
considered a wonder of the world.

43. quotas on Machu Picchu

in 2019 the Peruvian autharities started restricting visitors to the site. they started by
restricting visiting hours to 4 a day and even 3 in some areas and then they also set a
4000, then a 5000, visitor limit.

44. E.S. Wheeler

proposed to build a replica of the great pyramid of Giza in Detroit, Michigan, USA for
impracticle reasons and using unreasonable ways
1. E.S. Wheeler
提议在美国密歇根州底特律市建造一座吉萨大金字塔的复制品，理由不切实际，方法不合理

45. Eifella
a Mini (32 meter tall) tribute to the Eiffel Tower made by Phillipe Maindron in 2023
in Paris, France

46. Phillipe Maindron

built Eifella, a tribute to the Eiffel Tower

47. Eiffel Tower

made by Gustave Eiffel, 1889. in Paris, France.

48. Eiffel Tower replicas

in atleast 10 cities including Paris - Texas, Las Vegas - Nevada, Tokyo - Japan (the
tallest), Tianducheng - China, and even Lahore -Pakistan
49. Baku
capital of Azerbaijan. pretty low density

50. Kuala Lumpur

Capital of Malaysia. pretty crowded

51. Lithodomos
Australian company that uses 5 dollar VR to experiance ancient cities. founder Simon
Young
1. Lithodomos
澳大利亚公司，利用 5 美元的 VR 体验古城。创始人 Simon Young
52. Andrew Goldman
history professor that uses VR (from cardboard) to show ancient places such as
pompeii before it was destroyed.
1. 安德鲁-戈德曼
历史教授，利用 VR（纸板）展示庞贝等古城被毁前的面貌。
53. Modigliani VR: The Ochre Atelier
VR experiance in Tate Meusium in London showing the Parisian artist, Modigliani's,
studio from 100 years ago
1. 莫迪里阿尼 VR：赭石工作室
位于伦敦泰特美术馆的 VR 体验，展示 100 年前巴黎艺术家莫迪里阿尼的工作室
54. The Opening of the Diet 1863 by Alexander II
VR experiance in National Museum of Finland showing a Diet (19th century Finnish
parlament) meating. based on a painting by R.W. Ekman
1. 亚历山大二世 1863 年议会开幕式
芬兰国家博物馆的 VR 体验，展示了 19 世纪芬兰议会的会议场景。
55. I Came and Went as a Ghost Hand
VR art, London, 2016, Rachel Rossin

56. La Camera Insabbiata

VR art of a tree room. Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang. 2017, Taipe, Taiwan

57. Judith on the Red Square

Painting of the head of Josef Stalin perched on Judith's (an Israelite who beheaded an
invading general) hand by Komar and Melamid (2 exiled Soviet artists)
1. 红场上的朱迪思
科马尔和梅拉米德（两位流亡苏联的艺术家）画的约瑟夫-斯大林的头枕在朱迪思（一位斩首入侵将军的以色列人）的手上。
58. Judith
an Israelite woman who seduced and then beheaded an invading Assyrian general,
Holofernes. she has a lot of art about her and she represents female rage
1. 朱迪丝
她是一名以色列妇女，曾引诱亚述入侵的将军霍罗费恩并将其斩首。
59. Giorgio Vasari
Italian painter that made "Judith and Holofernes" in 1554 using a Mannerist style
1. 乔治-瓦萨里
意大利画家，1554 年创作了具有 Mannerist 《Judith and Holofernes》。
60. Mannerism
an artistic movement from Italy in the 16th century. had artificial and exxagerated
qualities
1. 文艺复兴
16 世纪意大利的一场艺术运动。具有人工化和夸张的特质
61. Judith and Holofernes (2012)
made by Kehinde Wiley. shows Judith as a black woman

62. The Girl with the Pearl Earring

made by Johannes Vermeer in 1665. when the Mauritshuis Museum in the Hague lent
it out in 2023 it launched a compitition to find something to hang in it's place.
1. 戴珍珠耳环的少女
约翰内斯-维米尔（Johannes Vermeer）于 1665 年创作。海牙毛里求斯博物馆于 2023 年将其借出，并发起了一项
征集活动，希望能找到合适的作品挂在它的位置上。

63. My Girl With a Pearl

a compititon to temporrerelly replace the faemos painting. out of 3500 submissions,
there were 5 winners, one of which was created with AI
1. 我的珍珠女孩
在 3500 份参赛作品中，有 5 份获奖，其中一份是用人工智能创作的。
64. A Girl with Glowing Earrings
made by Julian van Dieken using AI. one of 5 winners of an art compition. it is said
that it infringes on copyright and is an "incredible insult"
1. 戴发光耳环的女孩
朱利安-凡-迪肯（Julian van Dieken）用人工智能制作的，是一项艺术比赛的 5 位获奖者之一。据说它侵犯了版权，是
一种 “难以置信的侮辱”。
65. Julian van Dieken
made A Girl with Glowing Earrings using AI

66. Napoleon Crossing the Alps

made by Jacques-Louis David. Napoleon didn't agree to pose so David used his son.
replaced his mule with a stallion. it was innaccurate but Napoleon liked it. had
Hannibal and charlamagne written.

1. 拿破仑穿越阿尔卑斯山
由雅克-路易-大卫制作。拿破仑不同意摆姿势，大卫就用了他的儿子。拿破仑把骡子换成了一匹骏马，虽然不准确，但拿破仑很喜
欢。
67. Jacques-Louis David
made Napoleon Crossing the Alps

68. Paul Delaroche

made an accurate, but dull version of Napoleon Crossing the Alps

69. Emanuel Leutze

made "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (1851), which is iconic and inaccurate

70. Mort Kunstler

made an accurate, but dull version of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (raft
instaid of boat
71. Robert Colescott
made "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware" where all the men in the
ship are African Americans. againt the omission of African Americans.

72. Castillo San Felipe del Morro

in San Juan, Puerto Rico. was a fort built by the Spanish, is now a meusium with a
great view of the sea

73. Funai castle

Japam, builit in 1562, mostly destroyed, recently beautiful LED lights

74. 3D models & VR & LED

reconstruct broken castles.
7 castles
Guildford Castle
Funai castle

75. Guildford Castle

One of the oldest castle in south England (1066). Reconsturcted in VR.

76. castle
from Europe and the middle east. Goal: protect king and his people. Typically
Includes: thick walls, heavy gates, high towers, slits, & moats.

77. Palace
All around the world. Grand residence, often of head of state. Goal: to "show off".
Typically includes: elaborate architecture, golden throns, banquat halls, many
decorated rooms etc.,

78. The Winter Palace

Peter the Great in Russia built in St. Peterburg largely on influence of Versailles,
museum

79. Buckingham palace

The home of the Royal Family, the London residence of the British sovereign

80. Rambagh Palace

former residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur (north india), Now hotel

81. Parador Alcaniz

Spain, former castle, now hotel
82. St Donats Castle
Former castle in Wales, now private school

83. Alnwick Castle

Former castle, now museum, was used to shoot harry potter scenes, England.

84. Doune Castle

former castle, now museum, Scotland.

85. Old London bridge

built in the time of the Romans. for many years the only bridge on the river thames.
had houses and shops. was rebuilt many times. was replaced because its arches were
to narrow.

86. Claude de Jongh

made a painting of the Old London Bridge. Dutch.

87. the High Line

it was an elavated railway in NYC that was made into a very long but narrow park

88. Kai Task and Athens airports

in Hong Kong and Athens. made into nieghborhoods

89. Urban rooftops in th US

are becoming organic farms

90. Parking lots in France

are covered by solar panels

91. Cuneiform
A pictographic form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped
stylus and clay tablets. the first system of writing. originally for trade and accounting
1. 楔形文字
一种象形文字，由苏美尔人使用楔形笔和泥板发展而成，是最早的文字系统。
92. Petroglyph
an image carved into rock mostly by prehistoric people across the world.
1. 岩画
一种雕刻在岩石上的图像，主要由世界各地的史前人类雕刻而成。
93. Nsibidi
a pictogram from southeastern Nigeria.
1. 恩西比迪
尼日利亚东南部的一种象形文字。
94. Quipu
A recording device made from strings from Andean South America (the Incas).
1. 基普琴
南美洲安第斯地区（印加人）用琴弦制作的一种录音设备。
95. Dispilio Tablet
a wooden tablet with markings on it from ancient Greece.
1. Dispilio 碑
古希腊的一块刻有标记的木板。
96. Oracle bones
an ox scapula and a turtle plaston added together. It was used for pyromancy in
ancient China
1. 甲骨文
一块牛肩胛骨和一块龟板加在一起。它在中国古代被用于占卜
97. Cyclon
a cylendrical stone marked with marks and cuts and incisions, from the aboriginal
Australians
1. 旋风石
一种圆柱形石头，上面刻有痕迹和切口，来自澳大利亚土著居民
98. Geoglyph
a large design made on the ground from mainly South America and England but also
around the world
1. 地画
在地面上绘制的大型图案，主要产自南美洲和英国，也产自世界各地
99. Runestone
a stone with runic inscription from Scandinavia
1. 符文石
斯堪的纳维亚半岛上刻有符文的石头
100. Princess Diana
Married (the current) king Charles in 1981. Died in car accident being chased by
paparazzi in 1997. has been played by many actors
1. 戴安娜王妃
1981 年与（现任）国王查尔斯结婚。1997 年在狗仔队的追逐下死于车祸。

101. Ho Chi Minh

was the president of vietnam during the Vietnam War. played by Tien Hoi various
times
1. 胡志明
越南战争期间的越南总统。由 Tien Hoi 多次扮演
102. Tien Hoi
vietnamese actor that played Ho Chi Minh various times
1. Tien Hoi
多次扮演胡志明的越南演员
103. Abraham Lincoln
US president in the American civil war. was played by many actors. Sound recording
was invented shortly after his death (1865), so we don't know he sounded. he was also
not interviewed for the same reason.
1. 亚伯拉罕-林肯
美国内战中的美国总统。由许多演员扮演。录音是在他死后（1865 年）不久发明的，所以我们不知道他的声音。
104. Hamilton (the musical)
historical drama about Alexander Hamilton. simplified historical facts into a simple
tale of heroes and villains. casted black actors to play the white founding fathers. most
like it but some think it's racist.
1. 汉密尔顿（音乐剧）
由黑人演员扮演白人开国元勋。大多数人喜欢这部剧，但也有人认为它有种族歧视。
105. Meryl Strip
Plays Maragaret Tatcher in the movie Iron Lady (prime minister of UK in 1979-
1990.) Learned to mimic her voice, cadences and gestures
1. 梅丽尔-脱衣舞
在电影《铁娘子》（1979-1990 年英国首相）中扮演 Maragaret Tatcher。
106. Imran Khan
Former PM of Pakistan, now in jail due to alleged corruption. After elections gave an
AI-generated & AI-voiced speech claiming victory in the election
巴基斯坦前总理，因涉嫌腐败而入狱。大选后发表人工智能生成、人工智能配音的演讲，宣称在选举中获胜
107. Ben Kingsley
Famous actor who played Mahatma Gandhi. Was criticized by some for only being of
half Indian descent and is British, and for using darkening markup.
1. 本-金斯利
扮演圣雄甘地的著名演员。因其只有一半印度血统和英国血统，以及使用深色标记而受到一些人的批评。
108. Franklin D. Rosvelt (FDR)
President 1930-44 (great depression+WWII). Was on wheelchair due to polio. IT was
hidden from the public. Photos made iilusion of him being able to walk. Only in 2001
a statue of him with wheelchair was added to his memorial in Washington.
1. 富兰克林-罗斯福（FDR）
1930-44 年（大萧条+二战）总统。因小儿麻痹症坐过轮椅。对公众隐瞒了这一情况。照片让人误以为他还能走路。直到
2001 年，华盛顿的罗斯福纪念碑上才增添了他坐着轮椅的雕像。
109. Black and white pictures
was invented in France in 1826. Became popular in 1871 when dry-plate exposure
was invented, and later flexible roll film (Kodak camera). the late 19th and early 20th
century were phtographed in black & white which makes them feel bleak and
colourless.
1. 黑白图片
于 1826 年在法国发明。19 世纪末和 20 世纪初的黑白照片给人的感觉是暗淡无色。
110. Schindler's List
movie about the Holocaust by Steven Spielberg. mostly black and white except for
one girl's red coat.1. 辛德勒的名单
史蒂文-斯皮尔伯格（Steven Spielberg）拍摄的关于大屠杀的电影。除了一个女孩的红色外套外，大部分都是黑白的。

111. Stuart Humphryes

coloured old black and white photos using AI

112. AI colourization
turns old black and white photos into coloured photos. is not perfect and is worse then
a person's colourization.

113. Jordan Lloyd

A visual historian who colourizes historical photographs using a lot of time and
research.

114. Pixel 8
a phone by google that includes many AI elements such as editing photos, which
threatens people's trust of online content

115. Galaxy Enhance-X

samsung app that enhances and edits photos using AI.

116. Upscaling
Using AI to add pixels to an image (improve resolution). .
1. 放大
使用 AI 为图像添加像素（提高分辨率）。.
117. Denoising
Remove noise from picture (some pixels that got wrong color/brightness)

118. Convolutional neural network

a way for AI to learn to recognise what's in a picture
1. 卷积神经网络
人工智能学习识别图片内容的一种方法
119. Dataset
A collection of data that can be used to teach AI

120. Backpropagation
A method of training AI in which cells in the network that answered correctly are
stregethend (and incorrect cells are weakened).
1. 反向传播
一种训练人工智能的方法，在这种方法中，网络中回答正确的单元会被链入（而回答错误的单元会被削弱）。
121. Training
Giving AI data to learn stuff

122. Image classification

Assigning a label or tag to an entire image based on preexisting training data

123. Object detection

AI Identifying and labeling objects in pucture

124. Semantic segmentation

Attempts to identify every pixel as part of an object (or the background).
1. 语义分割
试图将每个像素都识别为物体（或背景）的一部分。
125. Hua Mulan
legendary heroine in ancient China who took her father's place in conscription for the
army by disguising herself as a man. also in a disney movie. Recently, AI used to
improve footage of its opera in China.
1. 花木兰
中国古代传说中的巾帼英雄，女扮男装替父从军。最近，人工智能用于改进其在中国的歌剧镜头。
126. Boris Eldagsen
sent an AI-generated (DALL-E 2) picture, "eletrician", to a photopgraphy
compitionition and won (without revealing it is AI generated, untill after winning)
1. Boris Eldagsen
《 2》）“eletrician ”送去参加摄影比赛并获胜（直到获胜后才透露图片是人工智能生成的）。
127. Bas Uterwijk
Used "Artbreeder' (AI) to create realistic versions of old paintings
1. Bas Uterwijk
使用 “Artbreeder”（人工智能）创建逼真的古画版本
128. Iceman Otzi
A glacier mummy from 5300 years ago, found in Tyrol (possibly, murdered), preseved
very well in Ice, now in a museum in Tyrol (Italy). AI made a photo based on the
mummy.
1. 冰人奥茨
一具 5300 年前的冰川木乃伊，在蒂罗尔州被发现（可能是被谋杀的），在冰层中保存完好，现存于蒂罗尔州（意大利）的博物
馆中。人工智能根据这具木乃伊制作了一张照片。
129. McMansions
a negtive name to overly large massproduced houses that are a reflection of new
wealth. they were built as a statement and not as a home, often with cheap matterials
and bad construction.
1. 麦克曼豪斯
是对反映新财富的大规模生产的过大房屋的否定性称呼。这些房屋是为了彰显个性而建造的，而不是作为住宅，通常采用廉价的材
料和糟糕的结构。
130. Ed Ruscha
made a lot of photos of the sunset strip, a street in LA and the main part of
Hollywood, that lets "go back in time"
1. 埃德-拉斯查
拍摄了大量日落大道的照片，这是洛杉矶的一条街道，也是好莱坞的主要部分，让人 “回到过去”。
131. Panorama De Constantinople
made by Sébah & Joaillier in 1888. one of the first panaromas.
1. 君士坦丁堡全景图
最早的全景图之一。
132. William M. McCarthy
Took photos of pre 1906 San Francisco before a big earthquake.
1. 威廉-麦卡锡
拍摄了 1906 年大地震前旧金山的照片。
133. Photography in china
came in the time of the Qing dynasty in the end of the 19th century

134. Photography in Japan

came from the dutch in the Meji-era. first photo was of the lord Shimazu Nariakira

135. Kintsugi
the art of fixing broken pottery with gold, silver, or platinum from Japan. This doesn't
help Conceal the cracks which shows the pottery's history

136. Yobitsugi
a kintsugi technique, in which if you don't have all the pieces needed, you can attach
other pieces to fill the gaps
1. Yobitsugi
一种近畿技法，如果所需部件不全，可以用其他部件来填补空缺
137. Phase-Mother Earth
cyllendrical hole and dirt shaped like the hole on the side showing an inverted earth.
made by Nobuo Sekine. was recreated after 40 years
1. 相母地球
由 Nobuo Sekine 制作。
138. Nobuo Sekine
made Phase-Mother Earth

139. Mika Yoshitake

made a Mono-Ha survey and exhibition, Requiem for the sun
1. 吉竹美香
制作了单幅画调查和展览《太阳的安魂曲》。
140. Stardate
galactic date system of the fedration in Startrek
1. 星历
星际迷航中联邦的银河日期系统
141. Japanese calender
eras' names are according to the emperor and the (Gregorian) years are his age. it is
used besides the Gregorian calander
1. 日本历法
年代的名称是根据天皇而定的，（公历）年份是天皇的年龄。
142. British calendar transition in 1752
transition from Julian to Gregorian calendar, which caused the loss of 11 days. this
allegedly made the English riot but most historians believe this is a myth
1. 1752 年英国历法过渡
从儒略历过渡到格里高利历，损失了 11 天。据称，这引起了英国人的骚乱，但大多数历史学家认为这只是传说。
143. Julian Calendar
a solar calendar started by Julius Caesar in 46 BC in Rome. it added a 365th day every
4 years
1. 儒略历
公元前 46 年由凯撒大帝在罗马创立的阳历。每 4 年增加一个 365 日
144. Gregorian calendar
revision of the solar Julian calendar by Pope Gregory in 1572. it cut 10 days in
October and added a rule not to add a day every 100 years. currently used in most of
the world.
1. 公历
教皇格里高利于 1572 年对阳历儒略历进行的修订。它在 10 月份减少了 10 天，并增加了每 100 年不增加一天的规定。
145. Islamic calendar
Lunar calendar that is also called the Hijrah. It has 12 lunar months and 354-5 days a
year so it moves 10 days a year compared to the Gregorian calendar. year 1-when
Muhammad moved to Medina.
1. 伊斯兰历
又称 “希吉拉 ”的农历。它有 12 个阴历月，每年 354-5 天，因此与公历相比，每年移动 10 天。第 1 年--穆罕默德迁至
麦地那。
146. Korean calendar
a lunisolar calendar (a lunar calendar that changes to fit the solar calendar) that is only
used for holidays, while the people mostly use the Gregorian calendar
1. 韩历
阴阳历（根据阳历变化的阴历），只在节假日使用，而人们大多使用公历
147. Rumi calendar
solar calander from the ottoman empire. originally like the julian calander. Year
started in march 1st, and year one was when muhamad moved to mecca. in 1917 it
was changed to the gregorian calander and to jan 1st (year one stayed Muhamad)
1. 鲁米历
奥斯曼帝国的太阳历。最初与儒略历相似。1917 年改用格里高利历，改为 1 月 1 日（穆罕默德入住的第一年）。
148. Hindu calendar
a lunisolar calendarfrom the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. adds a month
every 32-33 months (2.5 years)
1. 印度历
印度次大陆和东南亚的一种阴阳历，每 32-33 个月（2.5 年）增加一个月。
149. traditional Nepali calendar
a lunar calendar that is called Nepal sambat. year is 879 AD when a legendary
merchant payed the debts of the Nepali people. the official calendar is the Hindu
calendar
1. 尼泊尔传统历法
公元 879 年，一位传说中的商人为尼泊尔人民偿还了债务。官方历法是印度教历法。
150. Mayan calendar
a calendar with 260 days and a solar year of 365 days that meet every 52 years

151. solar calendar

a calendar based on the sun, for example: Gregorian and Mayan calendars

152. lunar calendar

a calendar based on the moon, for example:
Islamic and traditional Napali calendars

153. Bill Clinton

42nd President from the 90s. in 1997 made an Inaugural Address about the new
century including the internet and democracy becoming more important and
commonplace
1. 比尔-克林顿
上世纪 90 年代的第 42 任总统。1997 年发表就职演说，谈到新世纪，包括互联网和民主变得更加重要和普遍。
154. Francis Fukuyama
an ammerican political scientist that wrote in 1992 (after the cold war ended) stating
that history has developed clear winners, liberal democaracies and market economies,
and fighting between ideoligies will stop
1. 弗朗西斯-福山
美国政治学家，1992 年（冷战结束后）撰文指出，历史已经形成了明显的赢家--自由民主国家和市场经济国家，意识形态之间
的争斗将会停止
155. After the Ball
made by American Charles Harris, 1892. first music sheet to sell a million copies. the
song is about an uncle cancelling is marriage because he saw his fiance kissing
another man at a ball. many years later he realised the man was her brother.
1. 舞会之后
这首歌讲述的是一位叔叔因为在舞会上看到未婚妻亲吻另一个男人而取消了婚约，多年后他才知道那个男人是未婚妻的哥哥。
156. Freedom! '90
By English George Michael. 1990. Michael refused to appear in the music video for
the song,
1. 自由 '90
英国人乔治-迈克尔著。1990. 迈克尔拒绝出演这首歌的音乐录影带
157. Losing my religion
1991, by American band R.E.M, about unrequited (one-sided) love
1. 失去信仰
1991 年，美国乐队 R.E.M 的作品，关于单相思（单方面）的爱情
158. Brændt
Burnt in Danish, AKA torn, song by Danish singer Lis Sorensen. 1993. Best known
from cover from 1997 Australian singer Natali Imbruglia.
1. 灼烧
丹麦语 Burnt，又名 torn，丹麦歌手 Lis Sorensen 的歌曲。1993. 1997 年翻唱自澳大利亚歌手 Natali
Imbruglia，最为人熟知。
159. Pink Flamingo
Alyona Sviridova (1994), Russian song

160. Singing in My Sleep

made by the American rock band Semisonic (1998). the singer talks about how he
listened to someone mixtape and fell inlove with her and his worried he fell inlove too
quickly.
1. 睡梦中歌唱
这首歌由美国摇滚乐队 Semisonic 制作（1998 年）。主唱讲述了他如何听了某人的混音磁带后爱上了她，并担心自己爱得
太快。
161. Black Hole Sun
made by the American rock band Soundgarden (1994). is about the darkness hidden
underneath the smiling face of american life

162. I Saved the World Today

British pop music duo Eurythmics (1999). about heroism and self sacrifice.

163. Richard III

English king (1483-85), died in the war of the roses, making him the last english
monarch to die in battle. after 500 years his body was found under a parking lot in
Leicester, England. the body showed his twisted spine. a villain in a play of
shakespeare
1. 理查三世
英国国王（1483-1485 年），死于玫瑰战争，成为英国最后一位战死的君主。500 年后，他的尸体在英国莱斯特的一个停车
场下被发现。尸体显示出他扭曲的脊椎。
164. Barikot
in the Gandhara region, Pakistan. had an ancient Buddhist temple unearthed in it.
1. 巴里科特
巴里科特位于巴基斯坦犍陀罗地区，这里出土了一座古老的佛教寺庙。
165. old footprints from Australia
from 20000 years ago. evidence suggests one of the aborginal was the fastest man in
the world

166. Richard III (play 2024)

based on Shakesphere's play by the same name. had the main character played by a
woman without his dissability.

167. Ostia Antika

old Roman port city near (the city) rome. was gradually covered by sand dune and
thus was perfectly preserved. not very popular among tourists

168. Girsu Project

discovered a 4500 year old palace from a Sumerian city in Iraq using drones that flew
over the desert

169. MOVIES WITH DINOSAURS

Jurassic Park, Godzilla, and The Land Before Time. show them as giant scaly lizards.

170. how dinosuars looked like

today scientist think they had feathers (more like the Qatari falcon than the komodo
dragon). we know this from volcanic erupions in China.

171. Aztec Calendar Stone

giant stone slab made between 1502-1521 CE made by the Aztecs. shows the calendar
but may have been used for sacrifice instead.

1. 阿兹台克历法石
阿兹特克人在公元 1502-1521 年间制作的巨型石板，上面刻有日历，但可能是用来祭祀的。
172. Ocomtún
ancient Mayan city in the Yucutan peninsula, Mexico. it has many pyramids and stone
colomns
1. 奥孔图恩
位于墨西哥尤库坦半岛的玛雅古城，有许多金字塔和石柱
173. Montevideo Maru
Japanese ship from WW2 that had 1000 Australian prisoners of war and was sunk by
the US. was recently found 4 KM under the ocean.
1. 蒙得维的亚丸
第二次世界大战中的日本船，载有 1000 名澳大利亚战俘，被美国击沉。最近在海底 4 千米处被发现。
174. HMS Endurance
two ships: a British Antarctic ice patrol vessel that sunk from an iceburg, trying to
reach the south pole, and an a class icebreaker that replaced the first ship. both are
named after the ship "endurance" that explored the Antartic and got crushed in the ice.
1. 英国皇家海军耐力号
两艘船：一艘是英国南极冰川巡逻船，在试图抵达南极时被冰堡击沉；另一艘是替代第一艘船的一级破冰船。两艘船都以探索南极
并被冰层压碎的 “耐力 ”号命名。
175. Lucy
an ancient humanoid that lived around 3.5 million years ago in modern day Ethiopia.
we have hundreds of pieces of her bones (40% of her skeleton) and she helped study
human evolution. she was short
176. Ardi
a 4.4-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of an ancient humanoid from Ethiopia. she
was short. she is less well-known than Lucy. short

177. Java Man

ancient million-year-old human from modern day Java, Indonesia. the earliest human
(not humanoid) fossil. when found in 1892 it was a big sensation has first fossil
between an ape and a human

178. Taung Child

a humanoid 3-year old fossil from 3 million years ago in modern day south Africa.

179. Oldowan
3 million year old site in modern day Ethiopia, in which many stone tools were made.

180. Paranthropus robustus

a spieces of humanoid from 1-2 million years ago in South Africa.

181. Tujiaaspis vividus

an extinct fish from 400 million years in modern day China, Vietnam, and Tibet
(before India colided with Asia). there name means "Helmet sheild" because of the
shape of their head.

182. the Vesuvius Challenge

a competion to read partially-destroyed Roman scrolls destroyed in mount Vesuvius
emplosion on Pompei. the winning team used AI. Elon Musk sadi he'll provide
financial support in decrypting them.

183. Voice dubbing

a main way of translating videos using the sound of a different person in a different
language. can be low in quality and out-of-sync. can be made with AI

184. Subtitles
a main way of translating videos using writing in a different language appearing on
the screen. can be untrue and take away from the experience.

185. Library of Alexandria

was in modern day Egypt, and the largest ancient library. it was burned down in 48
BC. no one knows who did it. suspects include Julius Ceaser and Caliph Omar

186. House of wisdom

an old library/university from baghdad that was the largest library before it got
destroyed by the Mongols. the Mongols drowned 1000s of books into the river tigris,
making it black for half a year

187. Library of Congress

the largest library. was originally intended for use by the Congress of the US, but is
now open for academic research.

188. Muzeon Park of Arts

a park in Moscow filled with Soviet statues evicted from Russian parks after the
USSR colapsed. a similar park in hungary is called memento park

189. confederate statues

were destroyed following the 2020 George floyed (black man killed by cops) riots.
now they are kept in a secret storage in Virginia and it hasn't been decided what to do
with them.

190. Claude Monet

a French painte. impressionism. painted his lilly pond a lot

191. Giuseppe Arcimboldo

painted A Reversible Anthropomorphic Portrait of a Man Composed of Fruit

192. Albert Robida

Painted Aerial Rotating House (1883)

193. Carel Wilink

painted Late Visitors to Pompeii (1931)

194. Graciela Iturbide

photographed Our Lady of the Iguanas

195. Pedro Meyer

Mexican, painted The Strolling Saint

196. Pedro Alvarez (2003)

The Romantic Dollarscape
197. Avery Gibbs (2023)
Weirdos of Another Universe

198. IoT
Internet of Things. promised revolution. Critcism: silly products (adding internet to
things for no reason), security & privacy issues (can be hacked to spy on you),
become electronic waste (when cloud service stop it becomes useless).

199. Nighthalks (original)

popular drawing showing the secluded and sepperated upper class in a bar. painted by
Edward Hopper. its diner is recreatyed in the tv show Sandman. has many imitations.

200. Are You Using That Chair?

painted by Banksy. is inspired by Nighthalks. shows a man in british underwear tring
to get into the elites' diner.

201. Boulevard of Broken Dreams

painted by gottfried Helnwein. shows Nighthalks but the people in the diner are
celbreties.

202. Nghthalks revisited

painted by Red Grooms. remake of Nighthalks using coloured pencils.

203. Nighthalks (Moebius)

painted by moebius. shows the people in the nighthalks diner together looking at some
kind of monster throogh the window.

204. New Moscow

painted by Yuri Pimenov. it celebrates the modernization Stalin brought to Moscow
and the Soviet Union.

205. Condorito
Chilean comic charcter. was adapted into an international movie. criticism: watered
down the charcter and his jokey potrayal of chile

206. Metropolis
a German silent (1927) by Fritz Lang set in a dystopian 2026. in 2010 missing third of
the movie was found (it was cut when it was dystrobuted in the US). there are still
some scenes missing.

207. Romeo and Juliet soundtrack

original soundtrack was lost. it was restored by Nic Raine.

208. Fountain
statue of a urinal. original version was alledegally sculptured by Marcel Duchamp
(some say Barroness Elsa) and then was lost. recreation is in San Francisco Meusium
of Modern Art.

209. Michael Wolgemut & Wilhelm Pleydenwurff

painted Judith with the head of hulifernes

210. Artemisia Gentileschi

pauinted Judith slaying holofernes

211. Pedro Americo

Painted "Judith and Holofernes"

212. Andy Warhol

made Campbell's Soup Cans. it includes 32 different flavoured cans.

213. Betye Saar

African-American artist. Makes 3-d art. She made the scupture in a box Liberation of
Aunt Jemima, and the decorated bottle Liberation of Aunt Jemima: Cocktail

214. Mike Bidlo

appropriation artist (replicates the work of others). made not Duchamp fountain and
battle rack.

215. Rachel Lachowicz

she made a variation of Duchamp's fountain with feminine lipstick colours.

216. Aaron Delehanty

Artist known for creating dioramas

217. Poble Espanyol

Open air Spanish museum with different houses from different places in Spain. it was
restored in 1990 after being neglected

218. Heritage park

an open air museum in Canada showing life in Canada in the old days

219. Kona coffee living history farm

an open air museum showing early 20th century life in Hawaii.

220. Howick Historical Village

an open air heritage meuseum in auckland, new zealand. it's a recreation of a colinial
villiage from the middle of the 19th century.
221. Animals in living history museums
some meuseums breed animals so they lokik more accurate eg: wilder pigs and more
wolf-like dogs.

222. Spanish days festival

it's celebrated in the summer in Santa Bararbara, California. it includes parades, live
music, dances, and carnivals.

223. Timkat Festival

an Ethiopian Orphodox Christian festival celbrated in winter. it includes wearing
traditional white clothes, baptising in water, and a replica of the arc of covenant.

224. Naadam festival

a Mongol fetival celebrated in the Summer. it includes three traditional games:
horseracing, wrestling and archery.

225. Ravenna Railroad Festival

an end of summer festival in
Ravenna, kentucky that celebrates the city's Railroad heritage. it includes parades,
boothes, and miny train rides.

226. Mid-Autumn Festival

a Taiwanese and Chinese festival celebrating the harvest. in Taiwan, since the 80s, the
festival features barbeques in the moon light (inspired by a TV ad). it also feautures
Mooncakes and crafting Pomelos into hats.

227. Valentine's day in Japan

began in the 1950s from ads of chocolate companies and large stores. An early ad
campaign: ppurtinty for women to express appreciation for men using different
chocolates. only woman give chocalate (men give women larger amounts a month
later).

228. Quinceañera
large celebration for Latina girls' 15th birthdays. can cost thousands of dollars (even
reaching atleast 15K)

229. Dreamland
wax museum in Boston. unlike the main chain of wax museums, Madame Tussauds, it
allows visitors to interact and touch the wax figures of public figures and it has a
focus on history and education.

230. character.AI
Chaatgpt-lie site that allows you to talk with digital replicas famous figures including
historical and fictional ones. the founders were Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer .
231. William Shatner
played captain kirk in startrek. he agreed to have AI version of himself after he died
(if his family his payed)

232. SAG-AFTRA 2023 strike

a big actor strike in 2023 demancding that studios don't use AI replicas of actors
without permission and payment. after much struggle, this was accepted by
hollywood

233. Super Brain

a Chinese company that uses AI to "resurrect" dead loved ones as ai chatboxes for a
preposterous 1400$. Founder: Zhang Zewei.

234. Nagoya castle

A Japanese castle that was originally built 400 years ago. The city is trying to restore
the castle to how it once looked. There is a debate on whether to take out the
previously installed elevators.

235. Notre Dame Cathedral

A Parisian cathedral that was built 800 years ago and was destroyed in a fire in 2019.
The city is trying to rebuild it, but there is a debate on whether to make it look exactly
like it did before the fire, like it looked originally, or giving it a modern look. It
became famous thanks to the story "Hunchback of Notre Dame".

236. Shuri Castle

A UNESCO World Heritage Site of a castle in Japan. It was destroyed twice: in
WW2, being restored completely in 19921 and then declared a UNESCO World
Heritage Site, and again destroyed by a fire in 2019, and it is currently being rebuilt.

237. Vladimer Lenin

said "there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks in which decades
happen"

238. Gutenberg
Invented the printing press in the 15th century

239. The Strolling Saint/Pedro Meyer (1991)

A photograph depicting a surreal street scene with an overcast sky. A saintly figure in
white floats above the pavement and casts a shadow on the wall running down the
street. A woman and child are walking up some steps whilst, on the right of the image,
a man is standing under some plastic sheeting.
240. Late Visitors to Pompeii/Carel Wilink (1931)
This is a blend of metaphysical, magic realism and surrealism that situates suited male
figures in a ruined classical city under a smoking volcano.

241. Our Lady of the Iguanas/Graciela Iturbide (1979)

This photograph of a woman selling iguanas that focuses on the matriarchal nature of
the Zapotec Indian community and documents the role of women as healers, political
leaders, sexual sirens and merchants.

242. Aerial Rotating House/Albert Robida (1883)

This shows a house that's been raised up on a rotating table that makes a statement on
overcrowding and access to light and air for urban residents.
243. The Romantic Dollarscape/Pedro Alvarez (2003)
This shows images of American historical figures like Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson and
Jefferson plus the representatives of various ethnic groups who landed in Cuba at
various times—Africans, Chinese, Arabs, indigenous people and Spaniards.

244. Weirdos of Another Universe/Avery Gibbs (2003)

A series of paintings that explores the "what ifs" of an imaginary situation where a
small population of humans suddenly exist within an alien world. It is about the
feeling of being an outsider after having entered a new world, and gradually figuring
out how to find your place within it.

245. A Reversible Anthropomorphic Portrait of a Man Composed of Fruit/Giuseppe

Arcimboldo
It is known for anthropomorphic representations of fruits, vegetables, plants, animals
and objects.
246. Kawsbob/Kaws (2010)
This painting is inspired by the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.

247. Soup Cans/Andy Warhol (1962)

A painting that reflects the artist's life for twenty years where he used to drink it and
have the same lunch every day over and over again.

248. Charlie Brown Firestarter/Banksy (2010)

It features a character emptying a red can of gasoline onto the pavement with a
cigarette protruding from his recognizable smiling face.
249. Life, Miracle Whip and Premium/Brenda O'Connell (2013)
This painting zooms in on the everyday even further, focusing on one brand at a time
that includes consumer interest.

250. Liberation of Aunt Jemima:Cocktail /Betye Saar (1973)

This painting combines the iconography of the Black Power Movement, political
violence, and aspirational middle-class American culture. It uses them to critique the
racist stereotypes of black femininity and speak to the revolutionary aims of Black
Liberation movements.

251. Julian calendar

It is the 365-day calendar that Julius Caesar made official in 46 B.C. It replaced a
calendar based on lunar cycles. It provided for a leap year with an extra day every
four years. And included an average of 365.25 days each year.

252. Gregorian calendar

It is the system used since 1582 in Western countries of arranging the months in the
year and the days in the months and of counting the years from the birth of Christ.

253. Japanese calendar

It is based on the reign period of the emperor. Each time a different emperor begins to
rule, a new counting of the years begins and the period acquires a new name. 2019 -
Present ~ Reiwa Era. 1989 - 2019 ~ Heisei Era. 1926 - 1989 ~ Showa Era.

254. Korean calendar

It is a lunisolar calendar, meaning that it has both Lunar and Solar features.

255. Islamic calendar

It is based on twelve lunar months and consists of 344 or 345 days; the years are
reckoned from the Hijra (the time when Muhammad left Mecca for Medina and
founded the first Muslim community) in 622.

256. Nepali calendar

It follows the Bikram Sambat (B.S) system which uses lunar months and solar
sidereal year and is also called Nepali Patro. The New year in Nepalese Calendar
begins with the month of Baisakh which falls on mid of April in Gregorian Calendar
(English Calendar).

257. Lunar calendar

It is any of various systems for measuring the days, weeks, and months of the year
that are based on the phases of the moon (= the regular changes in the shape of the
moon as it appears to us on earth)

258. Rumi calendar

It presents the official Ottoman/Turkish calendar system, where it follows a Julian
year structure, where March is the start of the year.

259. Mayan calendar

It serves as the basis for all other calendars used by ancient Mexican and Central
American civilizations. It was based on a ritual cycle of 260 named days and a year of
365 days.

260. Hindu calendar

It is based on a year of 12 lunar months; i.e., 12 full cycles of phases of the Moon.
The discrepancy between the lunar year of about 354 days and the solar year of about
365 days is partially resolved by intercalation of an extra month every 30 months.

261. Solar calendar

It is any of various systems for measuring the days, weeks, and months of the year
that are based on a year of approximately 365 and a quarter day, the time it takes for
the earth to go around the sun once

262. After the Ball/Charles Harris (1892)

The song is a classic waltz in 3/4 time. In the song, an uncle tells his niece why he has
never married. He saw his sweetheart kissing another man at a ball, and he refused to
listen to her explanation. Many years later, after the woman had died, he discovered
that the man was her brother.

263. Losing My Religion/REM (1991)

It is an old southern expression for being at the end of one's rope, and the moment
when politeness gives way to anger.

264. Pink Flamingo/Alyona Sviridova (1994)

It is a Russian song that tells the story of a pink flamingo and the child of the sunset.

265. Freedom! 90/George Michael (1990)

It refers to a singer's past success with Wham! yet also shows a new side of himself as
a new man, who is more cynical about the music business than he had been before.

266. Black Hole Sun/Soundgarden (1994)

It illustrates the seemingly hopeless fantasy, revealing the darkness hidden underneath
the smiling face of idyllic, white-picket fence American life.

267. Singing in My Sleep/Semisonic (1998)

The singer is talking about how he listened to someone's mixtape and it changed his
mind about something. He feels like he's falling in love too quickly, either with the
person who made the mixtape or the songs they chose. He keeps hearing the person's
voice singing to him in his dreams.

268. Singing in My Sleep/Semisonic (1998)

The song's meaning is burned.

269. I Saved the World Today/Eurthmics (1999)

This song explores themes of heroism and self-sacrifice.

270. Upscaling (Super-resolution)

It is a machine learning task where the goal is to increase the resolution of an image,
often by a factor of 4x or more, while maintaining its content and details as much as
possible. The end result is a high-resolution version of the original image.
271. Denoising
It means removing noise from imagery — which is becoming more common in the
field of image processing and computer vision

272. Dataset
It refers to a collection of data that is used to train and test algorithms and models.

273. Convolutional neural network

It is a type of artificial neural network used primarily for image recognition and
processing, due to its ability to recognize patterns in images. It is a powerful tool but
requires millions of labelled data points for training.
274. Backpropagation
It is an algorithm that is designed to test for errors working back from output nodes to
input nodes. It's an important mathematical tool for improving the accuracy of
predictions in data mining and machine learning.

275. Training
It is the process of teaching an AI system to perceive, interpret and learn from data.
That way, the AI will later be capable of inferencing—making decisions based on
information it's provided.

276. Object detection

It is a computer vision technique for locating instances of objects in images or videos.

277. Semantic segmentation

It is a deep learning algorithm that associates a label or category with every pixel in
an image. It is used to recognize a collection of pixels that form distinct categories.
For example, an autonomous vehicle needs to identify vehicles, pedestrians, traffic
signs, pavement, and other road features.

278. Image Classification

It is the task of categorizing and assigning labels to groups of pixels or vectors within
an image dependent on particular rules.

279. Sunset Boulevard/Ed Ruscha

The project began in 1966, when Ruscha the artist mounted a motorized camera in the
bed of a Datsun pickup truck. The camera was pointed at right angles to the road and
fitted with a reel of film allowing for thousands of frames in a single, continuous
session. The truck proceeded slowly. He clicked continuously. He put a sign on the
back saying "Please Pass."

280. Ottoman Panorama/ Sebah & Joaillier

The collection focuses on cultural and urban images, mainly of Constantinople
(Istanbul), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, but other geographic areas, such as the
Balkans, and other cities and towns within the empire such as Bursa and Smyrna
(Izmir) are included, as are a few images from sites in Greece, Egypt, Jerusalem, India
and China.

281. Pre-1906 San Francisco/William M. McCarthy

It contains a particularly rare treat for San Franciscans: Photos taken mere days—and
in at least one case just 24 hours—before the 1906 earthquake.
282. Images of the Late Qing Dynasty
It shows a Chinese actress and an actor in elaborate costumes; nineteenth-century
travelers of the Silk Road; The Dragon Boat race, seen here on a crowded Guangzhou
waterway, was held during the Duanwu (Dragon Boat) Festival; Portrait of a woman
carrying a child on her back; a wealthy merchant's garden and pavilion in Guangzhou;
a religious figure in Peking; the section of the Great Wall that includes the Nan-K'ou
pass leading to Mongolia; two men pose on a man-powered vehicle - a wheelbarrow
typical of late Qing Shanghai

283. Images of Meiji-Era Japan

It shows the Nagasaki harbor (1890-1910), Cherry blossoms by Shrine (1890-1910),
Dance lesson (1880-1900), View of Yokohama (1880-1910), Samisen (1880-1910),
Pipe Seller (1800s), The Torii of Chugu Shrine by Lake Chuzenji and Mt. Nantai
(1800s), Rickshaw (1880-1910)
284. Rosetta Stone
It is a symbol for different things to different people, is a dark-colored granodiorite
stela inscribed with the same text in three scripts - Demotic, hieroglyphic and Greek.

285. Java Man

It critical for evolutionists because it appeared to be evidence of a creature with traits
in-between apes and humans). The fossils composing Dubois's discovery included
part of a cranial (skull) cap, a left diseased femur (commonly called a thigh bone) and
two (some accounts list three) teeth.

286. Petra
The city where an enormous ceremonial platform which could be more than 2,000-
years-old.

287. Ocomtun
A city discovered in the deep jungles of Mexico that uncovered the remains of an
ancient Mayan City, which meaning is 'stone column'. The scientists discovered large
pyramid-like buildings, stone columns, three plazas with "imposing buildings" and
other structures arranged in almost-concentric circles scattered throughout the
thousand-year-old ancient settlement.

288. Taposiris Magna Stele

It is a huge granite statue of a Ptolemaic king that was headless and the original gate
to a temple dedicated to the god Osiris.

289. Borobudur
It is a massive Buddhist monument in central Java, Indonesia, 26 miles (42 km)
northwest of Yogyakarta. It combines the symbolic forms of the stupa (a Buddhist
commemorative mound usually containing holy relics), the temple mountain (based
on Mount Meru of Hindu mythology), and the mandala (a mystic Buddhist symbol of
the universe, combining the square as earth and the circle as heaven).

290. HMS Endurance

It was found at a depth of 3008 metres in the Weddell Sea. It was last seen in 1915,
when Irish-British explorer Shackleton (1874-1922) and his 27 men watched in
dismay as the ship sank into the icy depths. The crew's mission, as members of the
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, was a daring plan to reach the South Pole by
traveling over the then-unmapped terrain of the East Antarctic.

291. Sutton Hoo

It is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near
Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have been excavating the area since
1938, when a previously undisturbed ship burial containing a wealth of Anglo-Saxon
artefacts was discovered.

292. Montevideo Maru

Its wreck, in which more than 1,000 Australian troops and civilians perished in the
worst maritime disaster in Australia's history, has been located at a depth of more than
13,120 feet off the coast of the Philippines—more than 80 years after she was sunk by
a U.S. submarine during World War II.

293. Aztec Calendar Stone

It was buried a few decades after the conquest beneath what is now Mexico City's
main plaza, or Zócalo. It was rediscovered in 1790 and mounted on one of the towers
of the Catedral metropolitan, where it remained until 1885. The central image of the
massive basalt sculpture depicts either the sun deity Tonatiuh or the earth god
Tlaltecuhtli. Although the 20 days of the 260-day calendar appear on the monument, it
is not a calendar; rather, it is a sacrificial altar that the Aztecs called a cuauhxicalli, or
"eagle vessel."
294. Taung Child
It is the first discovered fossil of Australopithecus africanus. Exhumed by miners in
South Africa in 1924, the fossil was recognized as a primitive hominin (member of
the human lineage) by paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart.

295. Oldowan tool kit

The artefacts, found at a site in Kenya, are thought to be the oldest known example of
a specific set of stone tools used for butchery and pounding plant material. It is
viewed as a milestone in human evolution and was assumed to be an innovation of
our ancestors.
296. Lucy and Ardi (fossils)
A pair of ancient members of the human family from Ethiopia. Their discovery has
illuminated one of the greatest mysteries of humanity: why did our ancestors stand
upright? Also named as Australopithecus afarensis.

297. Paranthropus robustus

This discovery of a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa is shedding important
new light on microevolution in an early hominin species. It is a relatively small-
brained species of hominin that lived in South Africa between c.2 and 1.04 million
years ago

298. Tujiaaspis vividus

The discovery shows the primitive condition for paired fins first evolved, where
there's a separation of muscular pectoral fins, retaining long pelvic fins that reduced to
the short muscular fins in jawed vertebrates, such as in groups like placoderms and
sharks.

299. Untitled (Lipstick Urinals) | Rachel Lachowicz

The artist recollected unconsciously that this painting is about the loneliness of a large
city. It is an all-night diner, three customers sit at the counter opposite a server, each
appear to be lost in thought and disengaged from one another. The composition is
tightly organized and spare in details: there is no entrance to the establishment, no
debris on the streets. Through harmonious geometric forms and the glow of the diner's
electric lighting

300. Are You Using that Chair | Banksy

A humorous reference to Edward Hopper's famous painting The Nighthawks, this oil
on canvas is indeed set in the deserted urban bar or cafeteria known from Hopper's
image in the artist's social realist style. The artist depicts a threatening chubby man
only wearing Union Jack underwear, pointing angrily at the cracked window of
Hopper's dinner. Two plastic chairs are scattered on the sidewalk around him, and it
appears that he likely threw them in an attempt to break the window. This figure
potentially represents the angry British working class demanding a seat at the elite's
table.

301. Boulevard of Broken Dreams | Gottfried Helnwein

This painting shows a scene late at night in a diner in the USA during the 1950s.
Outside, the street is dark and empty. Inside, there are three people sitting at the
counter, two men and a woman, and there's a barman standing behind the counter. The
couple on the right are smartly dressed and the woman is laughing, but the man sitting
next to her looks worried and unhappy. The barman is smiling, but the atmosphere of
the painting is bleak and lonely. The four people in the painting are all famous
American stars from the 20th century. The barman is the singer Elvis Presley - 'the
king of rock 'n' roll'. The man on the left is the actor James Dean. The woman is the
film star Marilyn Monroe, and the man in the blue suit is the actor Humphrey Bogart.

302. Nighthawks Revisited | Red Grooms

This version of Nighthawks shows Hopper in the scene looking lonely and out-of-
place in the very ordinary environment.
303. Nighthawks | Moebius
This version of Nighthawk strikes the perfect balance between reality and fantasy in a
classic style.

304. Fountain/Marcel Duchamp (1917)

The artist purchased a urinal from a sanitary ware supplier and submitted it - or
arranged for it to be submitted - as an artwork by 'R.

305. Fractured Fountain | Mike Bidlo

This version of the Fountain is a handcrafted porcelain copy, which the artist
smashed, re-built, and cast in bronze.
306. Untitled (Lipstick Urinals) | Rachel Lachowicz
This version explores social constructions of gender by juxtaposing the feminine
associations of color and lipstick with the appropriation of Marcel Duchamp's overtly
masculine and seminal readymade, Fountain (1917). The artist casts three miniature
urinals created from bright red lipstick. The result is a complex riddle of femininity
versus masculinity mixed with a satirical yet reverential salute to the history of art.

307. Timket Festival in Ethiopia

In this event, most of the people wear the traditional white clothes during the festival,
draped with a traditional netela, or shawl, for the ceremony, and gather at the
waterfront at dawn to watch the water be blessed by the priest, be sprinkled with it
and then, in some cases, submerge themselves in it.
308. Naadam Festival in Mongolia
It is a national festival celebrated every year from 11 to 13 July that focuses on three
traditional games: horseracing, wrestling and archery. It is inseparably connected to
the nomadic civilization of the Mongols, who have long practiced pastoralism on
Central Asia's vast steppe.

309. Ravenna Railroad Festival in Kentucky

It is a celebration of a railroad heritage, where children can decorate their bicycles,
tricycles, wagons, power wheels or just walk.

310. Heritage Park in Calgary

It is the largest living museum in Canada.

311. Millennium City Park in Kaifeng

It is a large-scale historical cultural theme park with 600Mu total floor space.

312. Spanish Village in Barcelona

It is an open-air museum with buildings from regions of Spain

313. Plimoth Patuxet

This offers an immersive recreation of a 17th-century English Village. The living
history museum recreates 7 and a half months of 1627 every year. The exhibit
includes actors portraying historical residents in a painstakingly researched and
reconstructed environment. Even the livestock are heritage breeds.

314. Kona Coffee Living History Farm in Hawaii

This gives visitors an opportunity to experience history brought to life by costumed
interpreters who demonstrate traditional crafts, agricultural activities, and the
everyday tasks of people from the past.

315. Howick Historical Village in Auckland

It is a living history museum on 7 acres of grounds and heritage gardens. The museum
depicts a settlement in the period from 1840 to 1880 and offers visitors an immersive
historical experience.

316. Spanish Days Festival in California

It is a beloved Santa Barbara tradition dedicated to honoring and preserving the city's
history, spirit, culture, heritage and traditions. The annual five-day festival, called
"Fiesta" by locals, takes place at the beginning of each August.

317. Suzume
This is a Makoto Shinkai's film about a deadly 2011 tsunami in Japan was implied to
be one of many natural disasters caused by a large worm from another dimension
318. The Woman King
This film is about the tale of a West African kingdom, Dahomey, which battled a rival
kingdom that collaborated with white colonizers on the slave trade.

319. Braveheart
This film is about a Scottish warrior William Wallace who leads his countrymen in a
rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England

320. Pocahontas
This film is about an English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a
romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.

321. Gastrodiplomacy
This means countries promote their cuisines to foreign audiences to attract tourists
and even achieve diplomatic goals
322. Global Hansik
It is popularizing Korean food for its nutritional and culinary values, and utilizing the
universal appeal of good food and the positive connotations of food preparation.

323. Taste of Taiwan

Its government developed Bubble Tea as a national brand through gastrodiplomacy to
introduce its signature drink to the world

324. Cocina Peruana Para el Mundo

Its government promoted Nikkei food in the global culinary market. "Nikkei"
generally refers to Japanese emigrants and their descendants, mostly settled in the
Americas, when it comes to food, it has specifically become known as Peruvian.

325. Brazilian Telephone | Miriam Greenberg (2010)

This is a cautionary poem about the dangers of unintentional accidents and kids just
playing. It describes a mother busy baking and children playing trying to reenact a
science experiment. Although the poem ends before the "electrocution" we assume the
child is injured or dies. The happy and idyllic tone makes the tragedy all the more
surprising. Yet, it seems like an excuse, instead of remorse.

326. "The Municipal Gallery Revisited" | W.B. Yeats (1937)

The closing lines of this eulogy/poem describes Yate's experience going through the
Municipal Gallery in Dublin and seeing all the historical figures and recalling how
they lived. It is full of nostalgia and thankfulness for the friends he had over the years.

327. "At the Tomb of Napoleon" | Robert G. Ingersoll (1882)

In the final stanza of his poem, he reflects about Napolean's personal losses of love
and how his acts resulted in widows and orphans. He compares Napolean to country
peasants who enjoy nature and dies loved by his family and children. In the final lines
he exclaims how all that glory is worthless.

328. "Buffalo Dusk" | Carl Sandburg (1920)

This poem is about the buffaloes are gone - those who saw them (Indians) are also
gone - the death of colonized.
329. "The Czar's Last Christmas Letter" | Norman Dubie (1977)
This shows how the idea of class is as much a psychological as a social structure and
how people's perception of class is ingrained in their behavior. This idea is evident in
the relationships that Nicholas describes to his mother.

330. "This is a Photograph of Me" | Margaret Atwood (1964)

This poem uses the extended metaphor of a drowned woman to describe the way that
women have historically been overlooked in society.

331. "Photograph From September 11" | Wislawa Szymborska (2005)

This poem describes the emotions of just one horrific aspect of that day and has the
readers remember the feelings they felt watching those poor people fall from the Twin
Towers.

332. "A Brief History of Toa Payoh" | Koh Buck Song (1992)
This poem describes the cultural and physical changes in Singapore
Alcatraz
This small island was once a fort, a military prison, and a maximum-security federal
penitentiary.

333. Ground Zero

The 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York destroyed much more than the landmark Twin
Towers of the city's World Trade Center.

334. Chernobyl
It is an accident in 1986 in a nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. And it is the
worst disaster in the history of nuclear power generation.

335. Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the
Japanese city and the explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens
of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.

336. Ford's Theatre

It is where Lincoln assassinated and this building collapsed killing 22 workers with at
least 68 others injured.

337. Pompeii
It was destroyed because of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79 CE

338. Titanic
British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14-15, 1912, during its maiden
voyage, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, killing about 1,500
339. Auschwitz
A camp complex carrying out the Nazi plan for the 'Final Solution' that killed more
than 1.1 million people including nearly one million Jews.

340. Paris Catacombs

Underground ossuaries, which hold the remains of more than six million people. Built
to consolidate ancient stone quarries gate; the ossuary was created as part of the effort
to eliminate the effects of the city's overflowing cemeteries.

341. Oriental riff

Also known as the Asian riff or the Chinese riff, is a musical riff or phrase that has
often been used as a trope or stereotype of orientalism in Western culture to represent
the idea of the Orient, China, Japan or a generic East Asian theme by Western culture.
The riff is sometimes accompanied by the sound of a gong.

342. Arabian riff

Also known as "The Streets of Cairo", "The Poor Little Country Maid", and "the
snake charmer song", is a well-known melody, published in different forms in the
19th century. Alternate titles for children's songs using this melody include "The Girls
in France" and "The Southern Part of France". The melody is often associated with
the hoochie coochie belly dance.

343. Andalusian cadence

It is a common Flamenco chord progression, but it can be found in just about every
musical style. It simply walks down the chords of the minor scale from the i to the V
and returns to i.

344. Tarantella Napoletana

It is a courtship dance performed by couples whose "rhythms, melodies, gestures, and
accompanying songs are quite distinct" featuring faster more cheerful music. Its
origins may further lie in "a fifteenth-century fusion between the Spanish Fandango
and the Moresque ballo di sfessartia".

345. Hijaz scale

It is a Harmonic Minor. The only difference from the minor scale is a sharpened 7th
note of the scale, which provides a compelling and triumphant major chord to dance
around when playing progressions. This scale has been always a dominant scale
(Maqam) in the music of the Middle East.

346. Jarabe Tapatio

A dance of Mexican origin, performed by a couple and consisting of nine figures and
melodies, in which the partners often dance facing each other but not touching.

347. Into Bondage | Aaron Douglas (1936)

It is a powerful depiction of enslaved Africans bound for the Americas. Shackled
figures with their heads hung low walk solemnly toward slave ships on the horizon.
Yet even in this grave image of oppression, there is hope.

348. The Oxbow | Thomas Cole (1836)

This painting depicts a Romantic panorama of the Connecticut River Valley just after
a thunderstorm. It has been interpreted as a confrontation between wilderness and
civilization.

349. The Fighting Temeraire | J. M. W. Turner (1838)

The painting re-imagines the final journey of a 98-gun warship which featured in the
Napoleonic wars and played a significant role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, being
towed from Sheerness to Rotherhithe to be broken up.

350. Llyn-y-Cau, Cader Idris | Richard Wilson (1774)

Richard Wilson paints this. It is a lake near the summit of Cadair Idris in North Wales.
He heightened the precipice and included imagined landscape features to create a
balanced, more ordered composition.

351. Edge of Town (Krumau Town Crescent) | Egon Schiele (1918)

It is not a comforting or uplifting work. It confronts us with the harsh realities of
human existence - the loneliness, the anxiety, and the existential dread that can
consume us. Yet, amidst the despair, there is also a glimmer of hope, a suggestion that
even in our darkest moments, we can find meaning and connection.

352. "Si Vas Para Chile" | Los Huasos Quincheros (1942)

The song takes the form of a conversation between a Chilean living abroad and a
person who is going to visit Chile. The Chilean asks the traveler to visit the woman he
loves to express his feelings from afar. He gives directions to arrive at his beloved's
home, describing in the process characteristics of Chile's Central Valley: willows
alongside streams, the Andes mountain range and the townspeople.
353. "Kalinka" | Ivan Larionov (1860)
Russia's most renowned folk songs, which means snowball tree.

354. "The Isle of Innisfree" | Bing Crosby (1952)

It is a haunting melody with lyrics expressing the longing of an Irish emigrant for his
native land.

355. "Bonjour Vietnam" & "Hello Vietnam" | Quynh Anh (2006 & 2008)
The content of the song is about the longing of an overseas Vietnamese for her
homeland.

356. "My Little Town of Belz" | Alexander Olshanetsky & Jacob Jacobs (1932)
This song expresses the longing for Jewish life in Bălţi, Bessarabia.

357. 24-hour news cycle

It is requiring news outlets to compete in order to have the most up-to-the-second
news blasted out before others do.

358. Clickbait
Typically refers to the practice of writing sensationalized or misleading headlines in
order to attract clicks on a piece of content. It often relies on exaggerating claims or
leaving out key information in order to encourage traffic. The term is generally used
in a dismissive sense.

359. Content farms

Organizations that produce a large number of low-quality videos, memes, social
media posts, and online articles on many different topics, then uses keywords and
algorithms so that this content is placed prominently in social media feeds and in
Google

360. iPhoneography
Making pictures with an iPhone camera. It often refers to taking photos and
immediately sending them to a photo sharing or news site.

361. Pivot to video

A phrase referring to the trend, starting in 2015, of media publishing companies
cutting staff resources for written content (generally published on their own web sites)
in favor of short-form video content (often published on third-party platforms such as
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

362. Branded content

A paid promotion tactic holds power and possibility for content marketers. It grabs
consumer attention and showcases the brand's value without appearing overly pitchy
or promotional.

363. Both-sidesism
The practice in the media of presenting both sides of an issue regardless of evidence,
facts, or the credibility of sources— grew out of a pressure on news- rooms to avoid
showing bias in their reporting.

364. Explanatory journalism

Journalism that seeks to provide greater context than you'd get from a standard news
article, in order to help the audience make sense of and understand the topic.

365. AI-assisted articles

AI was used to generate the core ideas, content, and structure of the article.
366. Excerpts | Trump on Show (2019)
An opera has opened in Hong Kong about Donald Trump - and his fictional twin
brother who lives in China. Other world leaders such as Kim Jong-un and various
Chinese politicians are also depicted in the show.

367. "Jones is Not Your Name" | X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (1986)
It is based on the life of the civil rights leader Malcolm X.

368. "Prayer" | Come from Away (2017)

Based on the events after 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland where a small community
welcomed thousands of stranded plane passengers.

369. "Eva's Final Broadcast" | Evita (1978)

It concentrates on the life of Argentine political leader Eva Perón, the second wife of
Argentine president Juan Perón.

370. Seven Cities of Gold

Also known as Cibola. They are the mythical lands of gold that the Spanish of the
16th century believed existed somewhere in the southwest of North America,
comparable to the better-known mythical city of El Dorado.

371. Sid Meier's Pirates!

It is a 2004 strategy, action and adventure video game developed by Firaxis Games.

372. Doom
Considered one of the first pioneering first-person shooter games, introducing to
IBM-compatible computers features such as 3D graphics, third-dimension spatiality,
networked multiplayer gameplay, and support for player-created modifications

373. Ghost of Tsushima

A play style that the player can adopt, the other is the samurai. By completing tasks
and stories you'll increase the Legend of the Ghost. The ghost uses underhanded yet
effective techniques which the samurai consider dishonorable. The tactics employ
stealth, special tools, deception, and fear.

374. Rampage
It is a 1986 arcade game by Bally Midway. Players take control of a trio of gigantic
monsters trying to survive against onslaughts of military forces. Each round is
completed when a particular city is completely reduced to rubble.
Assassin's Creed
Primarily revolve around the rivalry and conflict between two ancient secret societies:
the Order of Assassins, who represents freedom, and the Knights Templar, who
represents order.
375. Freedom!
It allows for access to a controlled environment using the native GPS on a user's
mobile device.

376. Alphabet (Google)

It was founded October 2, 2015 by Google co-founders Sergey Brin, who will serve
as president of the new company, and Larry Page, who will serve as CEO. They chose
the company's name because the alphabet is "a collection of letters that represent
language, one of humanity's one of humanity's most important innovations, and is the
core of how we index with Google search.

377. Facebook (Meta)

Directly refers to the metaverse that the company hopes to build over the next 10-15
years. It is a concept that blends augmented reality and virtual reality together,
providing people with the future of the internet.

378. Netflix (Qwikster)

It is a split that means two different subscription bills and two queues if a customer
wants access to the whole collection.

379. Uber (2019)

The company applied data science to its infrastructure, which enabled to compute
optimum datastore and hardware usage to improve efficiency.

380. Twitter (X)

Elon Musk changes its name, which is a symbol of possibility and a reminder that it is
still a work in progress; signaling to make significant changes to the platform.

381. OpenAI (2024)

It is an artificial intelligence research company that produces services such as
ChatGPT. A lawsuit was filed by New York Times against this program for copyright
infringement.

382. Dunkin'
Rebranded in 2018 after deciding to prioritize its coffee beverages and speedy service.

383. Pringles
The intention with the new look is to simplify and modernize the design, giving the
brand's mascot a bold makeover and highlighting the stickability of the crisps across
the range

384. Leeds United

Its new badge aims to reflect the idea of "strength in unity"
385. T-Mobile
It changes its name to Odido with a commitment to a brighter, more customer-centric
future.

386. The Gap

This high street retailer has been forced to scrap an expensive new logo days after its
launch following an online backlash from consumers.

387. Royal Mail

It was rebranded in 2001 as Consignia, but it did not last long. It is considered as one
of the most disastrous corporate rebranding efforts in recent history.

388. Rebranding
The process of changing the corporate image of an organisation. It is a market strategy
of giving a new name, symbol, or change in design for an already-established brand.
The idea behind rebranding is to create a different identity for a brand, from its
competitors, in the market.

389. Restructuring
The act of organizing a company, business, or system in a new way to make it operate
more effectively

390. Hypermarkets
Retail stores that combine a department store and a grocery supermarket.

391. Franchise
An arrangement in which a company sells another business the right to sell its
products or services in return for payment

392. De-extinction
The process of resurrecting species that have died out, or gone extinct.

393. Crowdsourcing
The practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions
from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than
from traditional employees or suppliers

394. Drop-shipping
It is a form of retail business in which the seller accepts customer orders without
keeping stock on hand.

395. Subscription
It is an amount of money that you pay regularly to receive a product or service
396. Peer-to-peer
Two parties interact to buy or sell directly with each other, without an intermediary
third-party.

397. Freemium
It is a type of business model that offers basic features of a product or service to users
at no cost and charges a premium for supplemental or advanced features.

398. Virtual storefronts

Form of interactive media/electronic marketing that allows customers to view and
order merchandise on their computer screens.

399. Razor-and-blades
A pricing tactic in which a dependent good is sold at a loss (or at cost) and a paired
consumable good generates the profits.

400. Pop-up shops

A temporary retail spaces that are typically used to introduce a new product line, test a
new market or generate awareness for a product or cause.

401. VAR (Value-Added Reseller)

A company that resells software, hardware and other products and services that
provide value beyond the original order fulfillment.

402. Supermarket Shopper | Duane Hanson (1971)

Duane Hanson used this work to comment on these changes, as well as portray the
changes to society. He portrays the excessive buying of this culture, as shown in the
overflowing shopping cart of various junk food items and ready-made packaged
materials like chocolate chip cookies and other foods like Coke.

403. 99 Cent | Andreas Gursky (1999)

It was inspired by an experience on the artist's first trip to Los Angeles when he
became "directly fascinated" by a dollar store window while driving at night.

404. A Supermarket in California" | Alan Ginsburg (1984)

A whimsical, almost comic poem that uses the supermarket as a metaphoric setting for
dreaming about the possibilities that America offers and lamenting the country it has
instead become.

405. Dodo
An extinct flightless bird with a stout body, stumpy wings, a large head, and a heavy
hooked bill. It was found on Mauritius until the end of the 17th century.

406. Wooly mammoth

An extinct mammal that was a heavy-coated mammoth of cold northern regions and is
known from fossils, from the drawings of prehistoric human beings, and from entire
dead frozen bodies dug up in Siberia.

407. Pyrenean ibex

A Spanish ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) chiefly of the Pyrenees mountains that
became extinct in the year 2000

408. Passenger pigeon

An extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America.

409. Mastodon
A large animal similar to an elephant, but with fur, that existed on the Earth until
around 10,000 years ago

410. Moa
A large bird that could not fly, that was found in New Zealand but is now extinct

411. Thylacine
A striped, meat-eating Australian mammal about the size of a large dog. It is believed
to have become extinct in the 20th century

412. Carolina parakeet

An extinct species of small green neotropical parrot with a bright yellow head, reddish
orange face, and pale beak that was native to the Eastern, Midwest, and Plains states
of the United States.

413. Lambert
Typically based on two standard parallels, but it can also be defined with a single
standard parallel and a scale factor. It is best suited for conformal mapping of land
masses extending in an east-to-west orientation at mid-latitudes.

414. Stereographic
It is a particular mapping (function) that projects a sphere onto a plane. The projection
is defined on the entire sphere, except at one point — the projection point.

415. Mercator
It is a conformal map projection of which the meridians are usually drawn parallel to
each other and the parallels of latitude are straight lines whose distance from each
other increases with their distance from the equator

416. Robinson
It shows lines of latitude as parallel straight lines and lines of longitude as nonparallel
lines that become increasingly curved as you move farther away from the map's
central meridian.
417. Goode homolosine
It is an equal-area pseudo cylindrical projection for world maps.

418. Miller
It is a s a compromise cylindrical map projection. The projection is a modification of
the Mercator projection; thus they are almost identical near the equator.

419. inkel tripel

It is a compromise modified azimuthal projection for world maps. It is an arithmetic
mean of projected coordinates of Aitoff and equidistant cylindrical projections. The
projection is known to have one of the lowest mean scale and area distortions among
compromise projections for small-scale mapping.

420. AuthaGraph
It is an equal-area type world map projection that was invented by Japanese architect
Hajime Narukawa in 1999. While conceptually in the category of an equal-area
projection, it would require further subdivision to qualify as an actual equal-area map.

421. Azimuthal
It is a map projection of the surface of the earth so centered at any given point that a
straight line radiating from the center to any other point represents the shortest
distance and can be measured to scale

422. Conformal
It is a transformation of one graph into another in such a way that the angle of
intersection of any two lines or curves remains unchanged.
423. Conic
A map projection in which the surface features of a globe are depicted as if projected
onto a cone typically positioned so as to rest on the globe along a parallel (a line of
equal latitude).

424. Cylindrical
A map projection in which the surface features of a globe are depicted as if projected
onto a cylinder typically positioned with the globe centered horizontally inside the
cylinder.

425. Quibi
It was supposed to be a major player in video streaming market with their paid
subscription for 10-minute videos. They raised $2 billion of venture capital funding to
create original content and launch their service. Unfortunately, it was a complete
disaster the investors lost everything.

426. LuckIn Coffee

In the summer of 2020, Chinese coffeehouse chain languished on what appeared to be
its deathbed. In April, the firm had confessed to falsely inflating its sales by over $300
million. Chinese police had raided the company's headquarters. Debt and equity
investors were suing the company for fraud.

427. Life at Sea Cruise

Passengers who'd signed up for inaugural three-year voyage. After weeks of silence,
the company has acknowledged to passengers that it has no ship, and has canceled the
departure, vowing to refund those who'd signed up for cruises costing up to hundreds
of thousands of dollars.

428. Nikola
The founder was sentenced to four years in prison for his conviction for exaggerating
claims about his company's production of zero-emission 18-wheel trucks, causing
investors to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.

429. Bitconnect
Operated a textbook Ponzi scheme by paying earlier investors with money from later
investors. Arcaro and his co-conspirators ensured that up to 15% of the money
invested went directly into a slush fund to be used for the benefit of its owner and
promoters.

430. FTX
Billions of dollars were lost by customers and investors in a defrauding scandal
orchestrated by Bankman-Fried. Regulators discovered customer funds went to
accounts controlled by Alameda Research — a cryptocurrency trading firm owned by
Sam Bankman-Fried

431. Jailbreaking
The process of exploiting the flaws of a locked-down electronic device to install
software other than what the manufacturer has made available for that device. It
allows the device owner to gain full access to the root of the operating system and
access all the features.

432. Reverse engineering

The act of dismantling an object to see how it works. It is done primarily to analyze
and gain knowledge about the way something works but often is used to duplicate or
enhance the object.

433. File sharing

Putting a file from your computer onto a special place on your computer so that other
people can copy it, or look at it using the internet.

434. Fansubbing
The process by which fans translate and subtitle various types of audiovisual material
into a language other than that of the original.

435. Aftermarket ink cartridges

An original brand cartridge that was once used, then professionally cleaned, refilled,
and sold again.

436. YouTube-dl
It is a free and open-source download manager for video and audio from YouTube and
over 1,000 other video hosting websites.

437. Dioramas
a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional full size or miniature model.

438. living history museum

a type of museum which recreates historical settings to simulate a past time period,
providing visitors with an experiential interpretation of history (people dress, talk, and
do things as they did long ago)

439. Spanish Village in Barcelona

Essentially a large, full scale diorama of the diversity of buildings of Spain from
traditional eras. People can efficiently inspect 49,000 square meters of historical
buildings and tilt at old slides with Don Quixote.

440. Heritage Park

In Calgary, stop for photos and eat 19th century ice cream with traditionally dressed
people.

441. Millenium Park

in Kaifeng offers hundreds of acres of life in the Northern Song Dynasty (A northern
song dynasty).

442. American frontierland

The land or territory that forms the furthest extent of a country's settled or inhabited
regions. Home to cowboys, pioneers, salons. (also themed park at disney)

443. Plymouth Patuxent

In Massachusetts, is a controversial colonial village where visitors explore the early
pilgrimage. However it has been criticised for not being a bicultural museum, doesn't
pay enough attention to indigenous people who were innately displaced and given
smallpox by the pilgrims.

444. Paleo Diet

avoid processed food. The idea we should eat no processed food like out ancestors
10000 years ago when life expectancy was only 35 years.
445. Roman thermopolium
Fast food for ancient romans. Sort of a snack bar and hot food were served.

446. Ulster people

It is Ireland. The Ulster American Folk Park tells the story of Ulster people's
emigration to North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. However there is a
problem with the 'American Folk Park' is that it is in Ireland. Irish people who moved
to US from boarding crowded ships to sleeping in log cabins.

447. Dysentery
Dysentery is an infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea containing blood or
mucus.

448. Great Emu War

in 1932, Australia declared war on emus.
Western Australian farmers had been facing hard times with their crops following the
Great Depression, and their difficulties increased tenfold with the arrival of some
20,000 emus migrating inland during their breeding season. The birds had been
protected as a native species until 1922, but now that they were classified as "vermin,"
all bets were off.

449. Renaissance Fairs

a fair that celebrate the renaissance period of history.

450. Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock

In Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock, six teenagers have no history
teacher—their parents are rogue scientists developing the first AI on an otherwise
uninhabited island.

451. Videogames as a way of revisiting history

The Oregon Trail | Seven Cities of Gold | Sid Meier's Pirates! | Call of Duty
Ghost of Tsushima | Age of Empires | Assassin's Creed | Railroad Tycoon

452. What critisism did the Oregon trail game face?

the game has also been criticized for celebrating imperialism, for discounting the cost
of environmental destruction, and for ignoring the perspective of the indigenous
peoples whose lands were being trampled—it was, in a sense, the Oregon Trail of
Tears.

453. What is a column (literature)

A column is a recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other publication,
where a writer expresses their own opinion in few columns allotted to them by the
newspaper organisation.
454. Presentism
focusing too much on the 20th and 21st centuries—and against sifting selectively
though the past to find support for their current social agendas. President of the
American Historical Association warned about this.

455. List actresses who played princess diana

Kristen Stewart.
Jeanna De Waal
Emma Corrin
Elizabeth Debicki
Bonnie Soper
Naomi Watts

456. List actors who played nelson mandella

Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover and Sidney Poitier have also taken turns at playing
Mandela. Morgan Freeman.

457. List actors who played lincoln

benjamin walker.
Daniel Day lewis
Brennen Harper.
Bill Oberst Jr.
Raymond Massey.
Fritz Klein.
Michael Krebs.
Frank Mc Glynn Sr.
Sam Waterston
Robert V Barron.
Billy Campbell .
Tom Amandes.

458. Why is hamilton controversial

While Hamilton's casting of black actors as white historical political leaders may
seem to empower them, it actually forces Black actors to play-act as their own
oppressors, exalting the very history that undermined them, and that it may even make
modern Americans feel better about people often assumed to be heroes who actually
owned slave s—such as George Washington.

459. Colour-blind casting (give examples as well)

Colour-blind-casting does not take race or ethnicity into account. Examples are white
actresses Scarlett Johansson and Emma Stone playing characters of Asian descent.

460. 'The Mountaintop' (play) Controversy

In a sort of inverse of the situation around Hamilton, the director of a play (The
Mountaintop) about the Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. triggered a
controversy in 2015 when he cast a white actor in the title role, hoping to explore
issues of identity and authenticity, especially in light of King's own words about not
judging people by their skin colour. The original author of the play objected, calling it
a disrespectful distortion of history and of her intentions.

461. Which American president was wheelchair bound due to polio?

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was almost never photographed using a
wheelchair, despite being paralysed from the waist down by polio. Journalists of the
era honoured his wishes; so did the original designers of the FDR Memorial in
Washington. Only in 2001 did they add a statue of him in a wheelchair.

462. Define Verisimilitude

the appearance of being true or real. She has included photographs in the book to lend
verisimilitude to the story.

463. Describe the controversy surrounding 'The Woman King'

The film attracted racist rhetoric even before it was released. Online commentators
condemned the perceived savagery of the Dahomey kingdom. In those reports,
particular attention was given to the "annual customs" in Dahomey, the palace rituals
that sometimes included massive human sacrifices.

464. List some methods of de-extinction?

Cloning or Molecular cloning, genome editing, selective breeding.

465. Describe genome editing.

Genome editing (also called gene editing) is a group of technologies that give
scientists the ability to change an organism's DNA. These technologies allow genetic
material to be added, removed, or altered at particular locations in the genome.

466. Cloning or molecular cloning

Cloning, as it relates to genetics and genomics, involves using scientific methods to
make identical, or virtually identical, copies of an organism, cell or DNA sequence.
These can be used to replicate the DNA of past or extinct creatures in order to
resurrect them.

467. Selective breeding

The process of selecting a few organisms with desired traits to serve as parents of the
next generation

468. List some plants/animals that scientists tried to bring back to life
american chestnut, woolly mammoth, pyrenean ibx, passenger pigeon, moa.
469. Describe the de-extinction attempt of the american chestnut.
basically:
american chestnut trees were almost driven to extinction by a blight bc of toxic fungi.
Asian chestnut trees were crossbred with the American chestnut. Had some flaws so
they did 75% american 25% asian (backcrossing). They then bred between the good
trees in that batch and so on.

470. Back breeding

Back-breeding aims to concentrate ancestral traits that persist within a population into
a single individual using selective breeding.

471. Super cow:

Big cow. The auroch, that hunters drove into extinction in the 1600s.

472. Old man of shanidar

shanidar cave is in iraq. Dr. Ralph Solecki excavated the bodies of eight adults and
two children, thought to have been buried during occupations in the cave between
45,000 and 60,000 years ago. Among some of the remains, Solecki identified
evidence that changed our thinking about Neanderthals.

473. Which English King died in battle in 1485, and was discovered in 2012 under a
carpark?
Richard III

474. Where was the oldest ancient Buddhist temple in Pakistan:

Archaeologists in northwest Pakistan's Swat Valley have unearthed a roughly 2,000-
year-old Buddhist temple that could be one of the oldest in the country

475. This footprint could belong to the fastest man in our known history. It was left by
an Aboriginal hunter who crossed a muddy wetland in New South Whales some
20,000 years ago, with four friends.
20,000 year old footprint found in NSW.

476. Describe the discovery of the terracotta warriors

Accidental discovery of a few farmers when building a well. Emperor Qin Shi Huang
Di was discovered in the chamber in the centre of the army

477. Sutton Hoo

The discovery in 1939 changed our understanding of that era. Provides one of the
richest sources of archaeological evidence for the Anglo-Saxon period of England's
history

478. Rosetta Stone

a huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian
that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing.

479. Dead Sea Scrolls

Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts (of leather, papyrus, and
copper) first found in 1947 on the north-western shore of the Dead Sea. Study of the
scrolls has enabled scholars to push back the date of a stabilized Hebrew Bible to no
later than 70 CE, to help reconstruct the history of Palestine from the 4th century BCE
to 135 CE, and to cast new light on the emergence of Christianity and of rabbinic
Judaism and on the relationship between early Christian and Jewish religious
traditions.

480. Borobudur
Located on the island of Java, the magnificent Borobudur temple is the world's
biggest Buddhist monument. Built in the 9th century during the reign of the
Syailendra dynasty, the temple's design in Gupta architecture reflects India's influence
on the region, yet there are enough indigenous scenes and elements incorporated to
make Borobudur uniquely Indonesian.

481. How does destroying a society's history impact it?

By destroying societies history, their would be a loss in culture and many traditions.

482. What would happen in our own world if information-tracking resources like
Wikipedia and TikTok suddenly vanished?
Lots of information would be lost and many important facts and information would be
lost. Also, people would no longer have access to these platforms making it harder for
them to learn because you loose a form of instant communication.

483. Is it possible for us to prepare for events we can't predict?

We can never predict the future (at least no yet) but we care prepare for
unpredictability by having the agility to always improve and positioning ourselves to
make quick, intelligent pivots when the time comes. Knowledge is power and we can
prepare for general things.

484. What is Vladimir Putin trying to rebuild?

The soviet union

485. Describe the archaeological discovery of 'Lucy'

AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy, is a collection of several hundred pieces of
fossilized bone representing 40 percent of a female of the hominin species
Australopithecus afarensis.

486. Describe 'Sue' the archaeological discovery

Sue is the nickname given to FMNH PR 2081, which is one of the largest, most
extensive, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever found, at over 90
percent recovered by bulk. It was discovered on August 12, 1990, by American
explorer and fossil collector Sue Hendrickson, and was named after her. The fossil
was auctioned in October 1997 for US$8.3 million, the highest amount ever paid for a
dinosaur fossil. Sue is now a permanent feature at the Field Museum of Natural
History in Chicago, Illinois.
Found as a result of a flat tyre when looking for Edmontosaurus bones.

487. Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu is a historical place in Peru and is an Incan citadel set high in the
Andes Mountains in Per

488. where is Petra?

Jordan

489. What did constantine and mussolini fight for?

to put the Roman empire back together

490. What is the painting of judith beheading holofernes?

tells the biblical story of judith who saved her people by seducing and beheading the
assyrian general holofernes. The painting follows the trope 'female rage'

491. What is the painting labelled Invasion of ukraine?

it is a painting by a 10 year old girl named andres valencia and portrayed the german
bombing of a small town

492. What murder took place in the opening episodes of startrek?

In the opening episodes of Star Trek: Picard, two characters need to solve a murder in
an apartment—but someone has scrubbed the floors, replaced the windows, and
wiped all the alpaca spit from the walls. (The only eyewitness also exploded.)
Undeterred, they resort to an alien device that can project a blurry hologram of the
recent past.

493. What does criminal forensics demand?

According to leading figures in the field, criminal forensics demands more than just
swabbing for DNA and testing flecks of blood; it requires imagination.

494. What is the CSI effect?

This is the belief by jurors (and the general public) that there are always scientific
tests for evidence gathered by forensic scientists. It also is an increase in the general
knowledge of procedures and processes that criminalists do in gathering evidence
which can be a good thing.

495. Who tried to return to their old lifestyle?

the British luddites
496. Who drew a decapitated Josef Stalin head on a woman's head
Vitaly komarm and Alexander melamid (two soviet artists in exile)

497. What is the difference between mennoties and amish people?

Mennonites and Amish people live outside the modern world. Although the two are
similar, unlike the Amish, Mennonites are not prohibited from using motorized
vehicles. In addition, Mennonites are also allowed to use electricity and telephones in
their homes. When it comes to their beliefs, the Amish and Mennonite faiths are very
similar. The differences lie mainly in the outward practice of those beliefs.

498. Who were the British Luddites?

The original Luddites were British weavers and textile workers who objected to the
increased use of mechanized looms and knitting frames. Most were trained artisans
who had spent years learning their craft, and they feared that unskilled machine
operators were robbing them of their livelihood.

499. Excavation definition

making a hole or channel by digging

500. carbon dating: a method for determining the age of an object containing organic
material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon
method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the
proprties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope.

501. Dendrochronology
the scientific discipline concerned with dating and interpreting past events,
particularly paleoclimates and climatic trends, based on the analysis of tree rings

502. Burning of the Library of Alexandria

Over 100 scholars lived at the Museum full time to perform research, write, lecture or
translate and copy documents. The library was so large it actually had another branch
or "daughter" library at the Temple of Serapis. The Library, or part of its collection,
was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is
unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been
rebuilt shortly thereafter; the geographer Strabo mentions having visited the Mouseion
in around 20 BC and the. Edward Gibbon's. Over 200000 scrolls.

503. How was 'the house of wisdom' destroyed?

Another ancient library, the Abbasid Caliphate's House of Wisdom, was destroyed
when the Mongols swept by on their way to Hungary and back again.

504. Tripitaka koreana

the most exhaustively-catalogued collection of Buddhist scriptures in the world. In the
11th century, Korean monks took 80 years to carve their entire canon into wooden
tablets—and then the Mongols destroyed them all. Unfazed, the monks tried again,
creating over 80,000 woodblocks.

505. when was the 'century safe' time capsule created?

1876

506. Polish Polar Time Capsule

Polish Polar Time Capsule: near the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard, the
tube holds smaller containers with samples that include a fragment of a 4.5-billion-
year-old meteorite, basaltic lava from an Icelandic volcano eruption and Namibian
sand hiding particles of kimberlite and diamonds

507. What is the opera Somnium

Kepler´s "Somnium" ("The Dream"), written around 1611, should be considered the
first science-fiction novel ever. The eminent German astronomer Johannes Kepler
imagines a trip to the moon and speculates about its inhabitants.

508. Rigoletto
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi:

509. What is the drive through version of Richard Wagner's ring cycle
Drive-through version of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle:
Spectators watch the action through their windshields and listen to the music on their
car radios.

510. What is the parody opera 'donald trump' about

Donald Trump is a Cantonese opera Trump searching for his twin brother in China,
Kaifeng.

511. List some CNN operas

CNN operas:
2022 production of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

512. There is a new approach to Oliver Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, which
he first wrote as a German prisoner of war. What are the musical changes made?
It uses a jazz and rock style for a traditional piece.

513. What is the international time capsule society?

The International Time Capsule Society is dedicated to tracking the world's time
capsule to ensure that those that are created are not lost. Paul Hudson founder of ITCS
and alumni of Oglethorpe University estimates that more than 80 percent of all time
capsules are lost and will not be opened on their intended date.
514. Who wrote the song 'Yesterday' and what is it about?
The Beatles wrote it - McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in
his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family.
melancholy ballad about the break-up of a relationship

515. Describe the song 'Memories' by Maroon 5

The song is based on the loss of the band's manager and Levine's friend, Jordan
Feldstein who died in December 2017.
The band's lead singer, Adam Levine, explained: "This song is for anyone who has
ever experienced loss

516. Describe Ali Haider | Poorani Jeans.

capturing at once a coming of age and loss of innocence, has for years remained an
anthem for college functions, playing on loop in days when audio cassettes were still
the medium.

517. Describe Gao Xiaosong | You Who Sat Next to Me

This song is a sentimental message from a man to the long-lost crush who sat next to
him at school. The lyrics are nostalgic, and touch on the man's heartfelt wishes for the
woman's happiness.

518. Describe Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick | Sunrise, Sunset

This song is performed at the wedding of Tzeitel, Tevye and Golde's eldest daughter.
The two parents sing about how they can't believe their daughter and her groom have
grown up, while Hodel and Perchik sing about whether there may be a wedding in the
nearby future for them.

519. What is the musical genre Zilizopendwa and where is it popular?

Magic Mushrooms - Them Mushrooms' Embe Dodo is also a nostalgic musical genre-
Zilizopendwa (those which were loved)—with enduring popularity in Kenya and
Tanzania. It has even inspired academic research on its implications for East African
development.

520. What does the playing of 'Mr Sandman' represent?

it truly represents the bustle and hustle of the 1950's consumerism and TV Televistas.

521. Describe the meaning behind the poem: 'A Dog has Died'
'A Dog Has Died' by Pablo Neruda is a heart-wrenching eulogy for the poet's much-
loved, deceased dog that also explores the dog's personality and interactions with the
speaker. Throughout the poem, the poet takes the reader through the different aspects
of his dog's personality. He was not over-affectionate or overbearing. He had the
capacity to celebrate his life that humans don't have.

522. What is the poem 'Dodo' about?

Henry Carlile's poem Dodo focuses around a person standing in the British museum
looking at a taxidermized Dodo and reflecting on how it's lack of evolutionary
capabilities meant that it has been reduced to extinction and nothing more than a name
in a glass cabinet.

523. What is the poem 'Brazilian Telephone'

Miriam Bird Greenberg wrote a poem called The Brazilian Telephone, which follows
two children conducting an experiment that they saw in a textbook, called 'The
Brazilian Telephone' where one child is in a bathtub filled with salt water and another
is connecting wires and batteries to the kid before turning a power source on. I have
no idea if the kid died or not but it sounds very morbid. Neither child knows the
dangers of what they're doing- the just think it's a cool experiment.

524. Describe The Municipal Gallery Revisited poem

The Municipal Gallery Revisited" by W. B. Yeats: In the particular poem, "The
Municipal Gallery Revisited," the narrator recalls a visit to the Dublin City Gallery
The Hugh Lane, at the time known as the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, where he
remarks on the faces and legacies painted on the walls. Yeats won the Nobel Prize for
literature, and the committee praised his work as "inspired poetry, which in a highly
artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." The poem is basically
just Yeats walking around a museum, looking at different paintings and arts and
getting emotional at what they each represent. He remembers seeing a painting of a
Venetian woman when she was being worked on in a studio 50 years ago, and this
makes him emotional because they are like old friends to him.

525. Describe the poem 'On Shakespeare'

On Shakespeare by John Milton: eulogizing the life and work of William
Shakespeare- Milton was seeking to honour Shakespeare the man, but more
importantly his literary contributions.
Basically: great artists live on through their work, and that creating art is thus a means
of achieving immortality.

526. At the Tomb of Napoleon - describe the quote

Robert G. Ingersoll said this as part of his book The Liberty of Man, Woman, and
Child. In the quote he recounts how he visited Napolean's tomb and it was
magnificent with gold and rare marble to honour the great man. During this time he
sees aspects of Napolean's life, like his expedition to Egypt, Russia, and the Battle of
Waterloo. While he thinks about his victories, he also recounts his failures and the
hurt he has called- like the tears of orphans and his wife leaving him etc. He finishes
with how he would rather be a peaceful peasant than a 'force of murder' etc.

527. Describe the haiku 'Kyoto'

Kyoto: is a super short poem- this is it. For Robbins, the poem highlights change and
the impossibility of returning to one's past; people change, circumstances change, and
returning to the home one remembers is an impossibility, as it has become the past.
Bashô wrote the haiku in 1690, near the end of his life, presumably on one of his two
visits to Kyoto that year. The city itself has changed, whether from development,
population growth, technological advances or other forces that alter the city, Bashô
does not say. It could also refer to the differences between the actual city of Kyoto,
with all the real world problems associated with cities as compared to, as Shûson
writes, the Kyoto that is described in legend and poetry, a more beautiful, mystic
place.

528. A Brief History of Toa Payoh

the poem, "A Brief History Of Toa Payoh", written in 1991, captures reflections on
the fast pace of Singapore's urban development, stirred by memories of life before
things like 'town centres or bus terminals.' The final line and most impactful line is 'in
our History's eye, growth is so swift, rebirth also gets short shrift'.

529. What is the poem 'Kubla Khan'

"Kubla Khan" is considered to be one of the greatest poems by the English Romantic
poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who said he wrote the strange and hallucinatory poem
shortly after waking up from an opium-influenced dream in 1797. In the first part of
the poem, the speaker envisions the landscape surrounding the Mongol ruler and
Chinese emperor Kubla Khan's summer palace, called "Xanadu," describing it as a
place of beauty, pleasure, and violence. The speaker suggests that these qualities are
all deeply intertwined and, in the final stanza, announces a desire to build a "pleasure
palace" of the speaker's own through song.

530. Describe the poem 'The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals'
The "Czar" in the title is Nicholas II, Russia's last czar, who abdicated the throne in
1917 and was assassinated with his family by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918.
Dubie's poem is in the form of a letter from Nicholas to his mother, Maria
Fyodorovna Romanova, formerly Dagmar, princess of Denmark, and is written in
thirty unrhymed couplets. Traditionally, Christmas letters fill in the person addressed
with details of the writer's life over the last year, and this is the approach that Dubie
takes. Nicholas tells his mother what his life has been like during his time in captivity
in the Ural Mountains. He recounts stories about his servant, Illya, and his wife and
daughters.

531. What is the meaning of one track forward one track back?
How our new music is reinterpreting old music. In other words, we are not being
creative enough to make our own music

532. what was India's first newspaper

Hicky's Bengal Gazette. published in the 1780s—but that was, at best, the first in the
English muold.
533. What South Africa's earliest newspapers called?
The Colonist.

534. In 2014, renowned Brazilian investigative journalist Rubens Valente published a

book entitled Operação Banqueiro. Describe the events that have followed:
In 2014, renowned Brazilian investigative journalist Rubens Valente published a book
entitled Operação Banqueiro that detailed the story of a 2008 police operation that
captured the attention of the country for involving the imprisonment and immediate
release, for acts of corruption, of one of the most powerful bankers in Brazil. Valente
was designated to work on the story as a reporter for the journal Folha do São Paulo.
Years later, he published a book about it which exposed the role of Federal Supreme
Court Justice Gilmar Mendes in ensuring banker Daniel Dantas evaded prison.
Operação Banqueiro revealed the collusion between Dantas's bank and members of
the judicial system, particularly Justice Yet, shortly after the book was published,
Judge Mendes sued Valente for defamation, citing "damage of image and honor.
Though in the first instance the judge dismissed Mendes's suit, through a series of
appeals, Justice Mendes has openly exploited his connections to completely railroad
Valente. In 2016, an appellate court sentenced Mr. Valente to pay compensation for
defamation. In another appellate judgment by the Superior Tribunal de Justiça, handed
down by a judge who had a close professional relationship with Mendes, Valente was
mandated to print Mendes's original petition and the judgment labeling him as
defamatory in every new copy of his book. In addition, Valente was also ordered to
pay Justice Mendes BRL 310,000 (approximately $60,000) in damages.

535. What was the watergate scandal?

The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the
administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's
resignation.

536. What was the Weinstein trial?

The trial in Los Angeles commenced in October 2022. Weinstein was charged with 11
counts of rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual battery, stemming from alleged acts
between 2004 and 2013. He was found guilty of 3 of 7 charges (four of the initial 11
charges were dropped) on December 19, 2022

537. What is overestimating evidence?

Hard to obtain evidence in real life. As such, people in jury might overestimate its
importance.