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The nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures in the US and Canada. Usually set up in converted storefronts, these small, simple theaters charged five cents for admission (a "nickel", hence the name) and flourished from ~1905 to 1915.
1 day ago · Steven Spielberg. | Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons. This piece is his sci-fi/fantasy from 1977, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which is widely regarded as one of his most remarkable works to date. And, the problem that Spielberg has isn’t exactly with the movie, but rather, with the note the movie ended on.
2 hours ago · Wikimedia Commons Al-Khwārizmī was a scholar in the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikmah) in Baghdad. At this intellectual hub, scholars were translating knowledge from around the world into Arabic, synthesising it to make meaningful progress in a range of disciplines.
1 day ago · The World Press Freedom Index ( WPFI) is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2002 based upon the organization's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year. It intends to reflect the degree of freedom that journalists, news organizations, and netizens ...
