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The great Muscari, most original of the young Tuscan poets, walked swiftly into his favourite restaurant, which overlooked the Mediterranean, was covered by an awning and fenced by little lemon and orange trees. Waiters...
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Booker T. Whatley, an agricultural professor and researcher at Tuskeegee University, developed the concept of the “U-Pick” farm, where customers harvest their own produce directly from the farm. Whatley’s concept revolut...
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Activist and visual artist Ai Weiwei is known for his use of repetition and multiplicity. In his piece Sunflower Seeds, Ai created over 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds, which were then spread out in a huge installa...
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Biofeedback therapy is a technique that allows people to actively monitor certain physiological processes in order to improve health and well-being. It has shown benefits for insomnia and long-term pain management, among...
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Paleontologists searching for signs of ancient life have found many fossilized specimens of prehistoric human ancestors, including several from the Pleistocene era discovered in a geological formation in the Minatogawa q...
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Body Length, Filter Time, and Lunges per Dive for Four Whale Species Whale species Typical adult body length (meters) Average time to filter all engulfed water (seconds) Average number of lunges per dive deeper than \[50...
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The Haitian Declaration of Independence was issued in 1804, bringing to an end the revolution against colonial France that began in 1791. Written in French, which was not the first language of most Haitians but which was...
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In addition to her technical skill and daring feats, American stunt pilot Bessie Coleman was also known for dazzling the crowds that came to watch her air shows in the 1920s with her exuberant personality. During her car...
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Gabrielle Adams and colleagues reviewed suggestions for improving a university that had been submitted to the university’s president. They coded each suggestion as additive (the idea suggested adding something new to the...
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As the name suggests, dramaturges originated in theater, where they continue to serve a variety of functions: conducting historical research for directors, compiling character biographies for actors, and perhaps most imp...
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In her 2021 article “Throwaway History: Towards a Historiography of Ephemera,” scholar Anne Garner discusses John Johnson (1882–1956), a devoted collector of items intended to be discarded, including bus tickets and camp...
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In their book Smart Pricing, Jagmohan Raju and Z. John Zhang consider musicians’ use of the nontraditional “pay as you wish” pricing model. This model generally offers listeners the choice to pay more or less than a sugg...
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One explanation for why humans tend to procrastinate is that our brains evolved to prioritize immediate rewards over long-term rewards. In other words, according to evolutionary biologists, we’re hard-wired to choose the...
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A student is examining a long, challenging poem that was initially published in a quarterly journal without explanatory notes, then later republished in a stand-alone volume containing only that poem and accompanying exp...
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Although many transposons, DNA sequences that move within an organism’s genome through shuffling or duplication, have become corrupted and inactive over time, those from the long interspersed nuclear elements (LINE) fami...
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A recent study by a group of neurologists aims to ______ the long-term effects of concussions. By tracking the health and cognitive functioning of participants over time, the study can help us better understand the risks...
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Because literacy in Nahuatl script, the writing system of the Aztec Empire, was lost after Spain invaded central Mexico in the 1500s, it is unclear exactly how meaning was encoded in the script’s symbols. Although many s...
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As a young photographer in the 1950s, William Klein ______ the conventions of photography by creating images that were high contrast and included blurred and distorted elements—features generally seen as flaws. So unorth...
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What was one similar characteristic shared by European Jews and women accused of witchcraft during the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation? (1 point) Both groups were required to live in self-contained ghe...
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Which of the following statements explains the major cause of the English Reformation? A. Henry VIll's condemnation of Martin Luther's teachings B. the pope's refusal to annul Henry Vil's marriage to Catherine of Aragon...
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