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- Karen M. Dunak, “The White Wedding Revived” in As Long As We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America

The Tower of Babel (François de Nomé, 1630)

humans are so beautiful

faces dated from 2,000 years ago carved in stone at the Lajes Archaeological Site in Manaus, Brazil

The Court of the Lions at the Alhambra, Granada, 1916. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

Watercolour portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace also known as Ada Lovelace, ca. 1840, possibly by Alfred Edward Chalon.

Ada Lovelace, is celebrated as the first computer programmer. In the early 19th century, she wrote detailed notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a pioneering mechanical computer.

Among these notes was an algorithm designed to compute Bernoulli numbers, which is recognized as the first published computer program. At a time when computing was an uncharted territory, Lovelace envisioned the potential of machines to perform complex tasks beyond basic arithmetic.

Her foresight and contributions laid the groundwork for modern computer science.

She was also the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

MY BRILLIANT FRIEND | 1.03 The Metamorphoses

Annie: There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death; conjuring spirits from the past...and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they called them Fire Keepers. And in West Africa, they were called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities. But it also...attracts evil....

Sinners (2025)

Cinema in Naples, 1956

he got the job done 🫢

incredible