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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #LawrenceofArabia #Napoleon The 10 Most Ambitious Biopics of All Time, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TVKSRS
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#Napoleon: Eine Biografie, die den Kaiser der Franzosen aus allernächster Nähe zeigt
https://www.l-iz.de/bildung/buecher/2026/09/napoleon-eine-biografie-die-den-kaiser-der-franzosen-aus-allernaechster-naehe-zeigt-669211
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#Napoleon: Eine Biografie, die den Kaiser der Franzosen aus allernächster Nähe zeigt
https://www.l-iz.de/bildung/buecher/2026/09/napoleon-eine-biografie-die-den-kaiser-der-franzosen-aus-allernaechster-naehe-zeigt-669211
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#Napoleon: Eine Biografie, die den Kaiser der Franzosen aus allernächster Nähe zeigt
https://www.l-iz.de/bildung/buecher/2026/09/napoleon-eine-biografie-die-den-kaiser-der-franzosen-aus-allernaechster-naehe-zeigt-669211
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#Napoleon: Eine Biografie, die den Kaiser der Franzosen aus allernächster Nähe zeigt
https://www.l-iz.de/bildung/buecher/2026/09/napoleon-eine-biografie-die-den-kaiser-der-franzosen-aus-allernaechster-naehe-zeigt-669211
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#Napoleon: Eine Biografie, die den Kaiser der Franzosen aus allernächster Nähe zeigt
https://www.l-iz.de/bildung/buecher/2026/09/napoleon-eine-biografie-die-den-kaiser-der-franzosen-aus-allernaechster-naehe-zeigt-669211
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"Still Life with Golden Bream," Francisco Goya, 1808-12.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of the all-time greats. When painting portraits, he could communicate a lot about the sitter while still depicting them more-or-less fairly. But he was also an exceptional caricaturist who ruthlessly dissected human foibles. He could paint historical works but also do works that were sharply critical of the times he was in. And he also produced many bizarre works that seem to be his savage depictions of human fears.
What he was NOT known for was still lifes, and the ones by him can be counted on one's fingers.
Here we have some fish in a heap by the shore. At just a glance, it seems normal, but bear in mind this was painted during the Peninsular War, when Napoleon was invading Spain and fighting was all over. Then those goggling fish eyes take on a sense of pathos. It's a heap of the dead, left on the seashore, sacrificed by a desire for conquest.
That's how good Goya was. He can paint a still life of fish and turn it into a commentary on war.
From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
#Art #FranciscoGoya #Romanticism #StillLife #War #Symbolism #Commentary #Napoleon #PeninsularWar
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“The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior”*…
The geocentric universe illustrated, with the sun and planets revolving around the Earth. Interestingly, the illustration above was created in 1660, a few decades after Galileo popularized the fact that geocentrism was completely inaccurate. (source)Alan Jacobs quotes from Freeman Dyson‘s epic 1998 book, Imagined Worlds…
It often happens that a scientific revolution is accompanied by a change in style. I like to use the names of Napoleon and Tolstoy to symbolize two contrasting styles: rigid organization and discipline represented by Napoleon, creative chaos and freedom represented by Tolstoy. In the world of computers, Napoleon is the massive IBM main-frame; Tolstoy is the humble Macintosh. The computer revolution was an escape from the Napoleonic ambitions of von Neumann to the Tolstoyan anarchy of the Internet. Future revolutions will bring more such escapes.
Jacobs goes on to observe…
The big AI companies are the apotheosis — literally, in the view of many who work for them — of Napoleonic science. The open web and the world of hobbyist and small-scale devices (often built on the Raspberry Pi) are our remaining refuges of Tolstoyan computing.
See also: “Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In? – Our surprisingly Napoleonic twenty-first century,” in which Erik Larson unpacks Dyson’s thinking and reconciles it to the world of 2022 (when Larson wrote the piece).
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As we contemplate culture, we might spare a thought for Jack Kilby; he died on this date in 2005. An electrical engineer, he made a– if not the— foundational advance that moved us into the age we’re now navigating: the integrated curcuit (or as we know it, the chip).
In mid-1958, as a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments, Kilby didn’t yet have the right to a summer vacation. So he spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design known as the “tyranny of numbers” (how to add more and more components, all soldered to all of the others, to improve performance). He finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution. On September 12, he presented his findings to the management: a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached. Kilby pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave– proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he had solved the problem.
Kilby is generally credited as co-inventor of the integrated circuit, along with Robert Noyce (who independently made a similar circuit a few months later). Kilby has been honored in many ways for his breakthrough, probably most augustly with the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kilby’s first integrated circuit
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Hype for the Future 229E: Henry County, Ohio
Overview Henry County is a smaller county at lower density located within the northwestern portion of the State of Ohio, though not adjacent to any given state lines, home to the City of Napoleon and the Villages of Deshler, Florida, Hamler, Holgate, Liberty Center, Malinta, McClure, and New Bavaria. Notable highways located within the county include Routes 6, 24, 18, 34, 65, 66, 108, 109, 110, 115, 281, and 425.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/hype-for-the-future-229e-henry-county-ohio/
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#Ancient #DNA #Reveals What Defeated #Napoleon’s 1812 #Army - #BioTechniques
What defeated #Napoleon’s #army in #Russia in 1812 has long been debated by historians and #scientists alike. Now, thanks to ancient #DNA #analysis, #researchers at the @pasteur.fr have identified the likely culprit 🦠 >>> 🧪
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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious”*…
Henri Matisse, View of Notre Dame, 1914, oil on canvas, 58 x 37 ⅛ in, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.Eminent art critic and historian Hal Foster has started what will be a four-part series in The Paris Review on looking at– and seeing– art…
Many of us look at art in the company of others; I have done so with a close friend, off and on, for five decades. We meet at a museum, wander around, settle on a painting (or, rather, it settles on us), look, talk, look more, talk more. We attend to the work and to each other; we enter its world together. Only recently and rarely have we written up our reactions, which we do individually. A testament to our friendship, this writing is also a tribute to the art, to the discursivity that informs it and the sociability that it allows.
Paintings call out to us in myriad ways. My friend and I are most drawn to pictures that are reflexive about looking, that anticipate it, that sharpen it, that alter our habits of seeing. This may be a Modernist criterion, but it hardly disqualifies older art; we have ranged as far back as Early Netherlandish painting. In this selection, though, I focus on pictures that date from the past hundred and fifty years. (For better or worse, that’s also my academic field.)
My aim in this exercise isn’t to tease out context, which is almost too present in wall texts today. Immediacy may be a mirage, but I try to come to my chosen works as directly as possible. It’s not that I ignore the texts on the walls; I just don’t get stuck there. I don’t pretend to see with a “period eye,” as Michael Baxandall called the attempt to perceive as historical viewers may have. Contextual information may often be necessary, but I keep it at a useful minimum. And though I sometimes get speculative, that’s part of the fun. In fact, one purpose of these studies is to be loosened from my scholarly superego (which isn’t very strong, in any case). I want to demystify the viewing of art a little, not to deskill it exactly, but to suggest that anyone can do it. Ignorant Art History is a big tent.
Looking at a painting is a welcome respite from scanning a screen. In that sense, this exercise is reactive: I labor in the small cottage industry of attention that has sprouted up in the cracks of the massive complex of distraction all around us. A phenomenological turn often occurs at times of intensive mediation, but the point is not simply to have our perceptions mirrored back to us. T. J. Clark has put the aim nicely: “When I am in front of a picture the thing I most want is to enter the picture’s world: it is the possibility of doing so that makes pictures worth looking at for me.” To look at a painting is also to exit our world for a while, and then to return to it cast in a different—distant—light. The time travel is often wonderful, and almost free…
The first of his short essays, on the Matisse pictured above, just dropped…
… As we approach this painting, we have little idea of what it depicts, or whether it depicts anything at all. A washy blue covers the entire surface unevenly, and its space is traversed by several black vectors. A vertical line stretches the length of the canvas on the far right, where it intersects with two horizontal lines that cut across the center of the picture. In the lower half of the painting, three diagonal lines run roughly parallel to one another, also toward the right.
The main motif floats in the top third of the painting. Outlined heavily in black, its interior is made up of the same blue as elsewhere except for one white blotch and a few black planes, scratched to reveal the white underneath. Three thin, white planes also appear in the interior, each crossed with a horizontal black stripe; the central plane divides the space in two.
All this is hard to sort out, and two more pieces on the right—a green blob beside a black one—only add to the puzzle. It is a complicated painting, but its complication is borne of simplicity. Completed in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, it is an austere work in an austere time.
The title offers a kind of lifeline: View of Notre Dame. But what kind of view and from where? And what are all the black lines? Neither abstract nor representational, the painting requires a shift in our way of looking: its elements are less images of things than signs for them.
We know that the Notre-Dame sits on the western end of the Île de la Cité in Paris. So the three diagonals might signify the quai along the Left Bank, the low path alongside the Seine, and the great river. The two horizontal lines then read as a bridge over the Seine, and the slight curve underneath them as its arched support. Finally, the long vertical line serves as the near edge of the quai, or perhaps of the very building from which the view is taken. The angles suggest that we look down on the scene from a Left Bank apartment several floors up. The overall blue signifies air and water where that seems appropriate, and anything else (or nothing at all) where it does not.
How does the squarish motif convey the famous cathedral? If the bisected shape suggests the two great towers, the white plane between them might evoke the rose window. Since we view the cathedral from the Left Bank, it appears turned away from us slightly, its south side more exposed. If the black areas register the sides of the building in deep shadow, the white ones might signify the play of light across the facade. And the blobs in green and black? The green could be a plant, and the black its shadow.
The pieces don’t add up completely or neatly. But then signification is about signaling-just-enough rather than representing-in-full. Here, seeing is guesswork. It often is elsewhere, too; we just don’t acknowledge it. Sometimes a sign doesn’t signify and sometimes it suggests more than one thing. The diagonals evoke both the quai and the river; the black areas convey a material thing here and an immaterial shadow there.
Around this time, Matisse kept a studio above the quai Saint-Michel. Might View of Notre Dame double as a view of the interior from which it was painted? In that case, the Paris cathedral is also a French window, with blue sky and white clouds seen in or through the glass; the green shrub is also a plant on the sill; the lines of the bridge are also the molding in the room; and—who knows?—the diagonals of the bank are also the easel on which this very painting was produced…
The remaining three installments will drop weekly into May.
* “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” – Albert Einstein
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As we appreciate art, we might recall that on this date in 1808, at the outbreak of the Peninsular War, the people of Madrid rose up in rebellion against French occupation.
In 1814, Francisco de Goya memorialized the event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
#art #artCriticism #artHistory #culture #Goya #HalFoster #history #Madrid #Matisse #Napoleon #PeninsularWar #TheChargeOfTheMamelukes #TheIgnorantArtHistorian #TheSecondOfMay1808 -
No more #crypto #scam announcing death of venerable Jonathan on St. Helena
https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/02/it-was-a-hoax-jonathan-the-worlds-oldest-tortoise-is-very-much-alive-despite-death-rumours #seychelles #tortoise #tortoises #wildlife #napoleon -
Read my article, "#Volcanoes, #ClimateChange and Darwin’s Legacy in #Chile"
https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/09/24/volcanoes-climate-change-and-darwins-legacy-in-chile/ #volcano #climate #Darwin #evolution #cambrian #dinosaurs #Concepcion #PuertoMontt #Chaiten #Osorno #science #Chiloe #earthquakes #volcanism #magma #Indonesia #Pinatubo #IceAge #Kamchatka #Hawaii #Toba #Napoleon #Frankenstein -
Boa hey! Die Dinger waren echt der Hammer! Aber jetzt rolle ich komplett überfressen auf die Couch.... 🤓
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Lecture en cours du "petit" manuel de lutte contre #antisémitisme de @jonaspardo et Samuel Delor..
Un nouveau #quizz pour parfaire vos #connaissances
#Napoléon Bonaparte a...
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🎨 ■ El gran emperador que fue odiado por sus soldados por subestimar el poder de España ■ Marcó el inicio del declive de su carrera.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/life/cultura/el-gran-emperador-odiado-soldados-subestimar-espana.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD -
CW: Complot pédocriminel 🧶
Jean-François Lemaire était "le cadet d’une famille de 7 enfants, son père était général de l’armée française et sa mère, qu’il surnomme tendrement la marquise s’est donnée cœur et âme pour éduquer ses petits, et ce avec beaucoup d’humour." (Wikipedia)
"Dans une mécanique bien huilée de la terreur, Jean-François Lemaire humiliait et battait sa compagne en cas de comportements jugés inappropriés des enfants, parmi lesquels, poser des questions." « Quand on était petits, la conséquence de la parole, c’était les coups, pas sur nous mais sur elle. Si on faisait quelque chose de travers, quoi que ce soit, une mauvaise note à l’école, il y avait des coups sur elle », explique Inès Chatin à Libération.
Avec constance, Jean-François Lemaire s’est organisé pour capter et utiliser plusieurs enfants :
À la sortie de l’école, la nounou amenait l’enfant dans un appartement, notamment 97 rue du Bac, ou rue de Varenne, Paris 7e
Les tortionnaires incluaient : Gabriel Matzeff, François Gibeault, Claude Imbert, Jean-François Revel.(à suivre)
Écoutez : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/recits-d-enquete/recits-d-enquete-chronique-du-samedi-22-juin-2024-1848455
Sur abonnement : https://www.liberation.fr/societe/police-justice/les-hommes-de-la-rue-du-bac-46-les-influentes-amities-de-la-bande-de-jean-francois-lemaire-20240619_TD3TKAL5TJE3NJRGG6WP4YSX2Y/
En douce : https://www.apar.tv/societe/une-bande-pedocriminelle-a-sevi-pendant-des-annees-au-coeur-de-paris/#enquête #médias #torture #pédocrimininalité #notabilité #dominationAdulte #patriarcat #nonMixité #Lemaire #confiance #élite #complicité #respectabilité #réputation #Matzeff #RueDuBac #Paris #Russe #immigrés #Napoléon #famille #inceste #violencesConjugales #Gibeault #adoption #complot #communauté #initiation #amitié #emprise #confiance #réputation #FAF #Wikipedia #VSS #cultureDuViol #suprémacisme #BDSM #éducation #Paris2024
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From #preserving #Africa's #cultural #heritage to the era of #Artificial #Intelligence
In 2017, the special issue of the #British #magazine The #Economist #announced on the cover that the most valuable resource was now data. This echoed the phrase “data is the new oil”, formulated in 2006 by data scientist Clive Humby.In 2018 James Bridle clarified that data is not the new oil but the new nuclear energy in that it is unlimited and in its capacity to cause harm (1) .
In fact, since the 1960s, the following terms have come and gone at a rapid pace: data base, datawarehouse, databank, datamining, datamart, data store, big data, data lake, dataset, all #Anglo-Saxon sounding terms with sometimes more or less successful attempts at translations into other languages.
But since the dawn of time, data has been the basis of #communication and the transmission of #knowledge between #humans, which evolved in four stages, oral, written, printed and digital.
Africa?
The African enjoys less of the advantages of being connected to the rest of the world than he suffers the #disadvantages. On a #cultural level, today's young African is likely to know more about the #British #Empire than about the Empire of #Ghana. He is more likely to have heard of #Napoleon #Bonaparte than of #Sundiata #Keita, the founding king of the great empire of #Mali. He will certainly have heard of #Elon #Musk as the richest man on the planet, but not of Mansa Musa, king of Mali in 1312 and probably the richest man who ever lived. And if he heard of #Léopold #Cedar #Senghor or #Félix #Houphouët-Boigny it will surely be thanks to the #Western #Media Through their prism.
#Algeria #Egypt #Ethiopia #Guinea #Liberia #Morocco #Senegal #Togo #Tunisia #Zambia #Angola #Benin #Botswana #BurkinaFaso #Burundi #Cameroon #CaboVerde #CentralAfrican #Chad #Comoros #Coted’Ivoire #Congo #Djibouti #EquatorialGuinea #Eritrea #Eswatini #Gabon #Gambia #Ghana #Kenya #Lesotho #Libya #Madagascar #Malawi #Mali #Mauritania #Mauritius #Mozambique #Namibia #Niger #Nigeria #Congo #Rwanda #Sao #TomeandPrincipe #Seychelles #SierraLeone #SouthAfrica #SouthSudan #Sudan #Tanzania #Uganda #Zimbabwe
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‘Napoleon’s’ Oscar-Nominated Production And Costume Designers On The Challenges Of Ridley Scott’s Latest Epic – Contenders Film: The Nominees
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How ‘Napoleon’ Coronation Scene Was Inspired By Jacques-Louis David’s 1807 Painting
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[#brevedarchives] Rose des vents, dont le nord est surmonté d'un aigle (qui ressemble à un vautour affamé) impérial, un brin de blé au bec (1809)
Archives nationales, F/3(II)/Cotes-du-Nord/8, dossier Pléneuf Val André
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#AppleTVPlus has ordered #Carême, a new French drama series starring #BenjaminVoisin & #LynaKhoudri.
Set in Europe in the 19th century, the series follows the story of #AntoninCarême, the world's first celebrity chef, who also became a spy for France as his talent and ambitions attracted the attention of powerful politicians, including #Napoleon.
The series is inspired by “Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême – The First Celebrity Chef” by #IanKelly.
(https://variety.com/2023/film/news/apple-tv-french-original-antonin-careme-1235640895/)