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  2. 50 minutes ago · Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) expresses very well the idea of culture as a weapon to fight a war, thanks also to the military metaphors present in his theory of cultural hegemony, which, as we are about to see, was not systematically elaborated by Gramsci and this, as Thomas R. Bates wrote, requires the historian to transform himself into an “archaeologist” (Bates 1975, 351) to dig through ...

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    1 day ago · Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ." [3] His novels include The Adventures of Tom ...

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    1 day ago · Cubism. Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and sculpture, and inspired artistic movements in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.

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    1 day ago · Climbing elevator. A climbing elevator is a self-ascending elevator with its own propulsion. The propulsion can be done by an electric or a combustion engine. Climbing elevators are used in guyed masts or towers, in order to make easy access to parts of these constructions, such as flight safety lamps for maintenance.

  6. 50 minutes ago · Vilfredo Pareto condensed his sociological thought into four major works: The Course of Political Economy, published in Lausanne in 1896–1897; The Socialist Systems, published in Paris in 1902; the Manual of Political Economy, published in Milan in 1906; and the Treatise on General Sociology, published in Florence in 1916.

  7. 1 day ago · This list of genocides includes estimates of all deaths which were directly or indirectly caused by genocides that are recognised in significant scholarship as genocides. It excludes mass killings which have not been explicitly defined as genocidal, but called mass murder, crimes against humanity, politicide, classicide, or war crimes, such as the Thirty Years' War (4.5 to 8 million deaths ...

  8. 1 day ago · The history of artificial intelligence ( AI) began in antiquity, with myths, stories and rumors of artificial beings endowed with intelligence or consciousness by master craftsmen. The seeds of modern AI were planted by philosophers who attempted to describe the process of human thinking as the mechanical manipulation of symbols.