“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but parent of all others.” This timeless quote, and many others like it, came from the famous Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. Widely considered one of the greatest orators and writers to have lived in ancient Rome, he was also a p...
In the 1960 he moved to Rome. In the 1950 he worked for L'Avanti! and, from 1968, as theatre critic for Paese Sera. His most renowned work is the experimental poem "La ragazza Carla", published in 1960. Pagliarani's poems usually deal with realist themes, such as work, economics, ...
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Compared to other technological developments and inventions in the last 2000 years, the atomic bomb had the greatest effects on human history. In just a matter of seconds, a single atomic bomb eliminated around 200,000 people in Hiroshima. The ability to destroy the planet is now within the r...
In his lifetime, da Vinci kept notes about his ideas, inventions, and studies. Today, an estimated 7,000 pages from those journals survive. The image featured here is a two-page spread from da Vinci'sCodex Leicester. The 72-page journal was purchased by Bill Gates in 1994. ...
Tesla’s inventions paved the way for modern electricity and helped shape the world as we know it today. Unfortunately, Thomas Edison gets more credit than Tesla, even though it was Tesla’s work that was more significant. 46. Magneto ...
Through cropping, multiple imagery, and other formal inventions, his work explores options for transforming the vocabulary of the photograph. Untitled from 1969 illustrates the simple method of manipulating objective information through juxtaposition: two distinct women on the beach enter into a yin-yang...
At the beginning of this century there was, in general, a great curiosity about new inventions within communications. Apart from trains, automobiles and airplanes, artists recognized entirely new means of expression through the telephone, the wireless telegraph and the phonograph. Apollinaire outlined...
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[阅读理解] Famous Inventions and Their InventorsX-rays were discovered in 1895 by a German professor, Wilhelm Roentgen. People all over the world were amazed by his invention, the X-ray machine. This invention was so important that Roentgen won the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901.The ...