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The Wild and Contentious History of Mathematical Symbols
I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...
Parashat Beshalach: The path to victory
The weekly Torah portion ‘Beshalach’ concludes with the first battle the Jewish people faced after leaving Egypt – the war ...
The Marvel movies lost something when they lost Steve Rogers
The First Avenger, so dubbed for his origins as a WWII super soldier, was not the first Avenger Marvel introduced when setting out to engineer an interconnected movie franchise for its various ...
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Dan Brown Announces New Book, The Secret of Secrets
According to a synopsis of the book, Langdon travels to Prague to attend a lecture by his girlfriend, Katherine Solomon, a “prominent noetic scientist” who is set to publish a book that “contains ...
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No Laughing Matter: How JOKER and FOLIE À DEUX Challenge What We Expect from The Clown Prince of Crime
Todd Phillips' Joker films pull the audience into Arthur Fleck's world, making us complicit in his rise and fall, and forcing ...
This 79-year-old lost her home in the California wildfires. ‘I hope to live long enough to see it rebuilt'
Karen Bagnard lost her home of more than 50 years in Altadena, California, to the area’s devastating wildfires. Now, she ...
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Dan Brown’s next thriller, ‘The Secret of Secrets,’ to be published Sept. 9
Dan Brown' s next global, multi-tiered thriller finds protagonist Robert Langdon journeying from Prague to New York to London as he evades a would-be assassin and ponders the depths of human ...