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Expression of Ideas

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For several centuries after the birth of opera in sixteenth-century Florence, Italian...Easy
Monument 61 is the name given to a 13 ton stone statue of a human head that was created...Easy
The method used in 1920 by the US Geological Survey to calculate the geographic center of...Medium
The title of "Of the Inequality amongst Us," an essay by French philosopher Michel de...Easy
Australia ratified the Outer Space Treaty, an international agreement with over 100...Easy
Before the first railroads were built in Australia, engineers warned against using...Easy
In 2015, geologist Peter Rogerson calculated that the geographic center of Georgia was a...Medium
In certain genetic inheritance patterns, inherited traits can skip a generation in a...Easy
In an ekphrastic poem, a poet explores a work of visual art, such as a drawing, sculpture...Easy
Despite its great distance from Earth—it is 570 light-years away—the star Shaula is one of...Medium
Modernist architect Adolf Loos argued that buildings shouldn't have ornaments, such as...Easy
In a hypothetical family tree, it is common for a parent in the first generation to...Intense
In quantum physics, Karen Barad's theory of agential realism—which emphasizes the...Medium
Phytoplankton play a crucial role in the ocean’s uptake of carbon from the atmosphere...Easy
In 1891, dancer and choreographer Loie Fuller first performed her celebrated Serpentine...Easy
In 1885, Chinese-born California resident Mary Tape became a hero of the Asian American...Easy
To explore how blinking affects social interactions, Dutch researchers observed...Easy
Researchers Helena Mihaljević-Brandt, Lucía Santamaría, and Marco Tullney report that...Intense
Seismologists Kaiqing Yuan and Barbara Romanowicz have proposed that the magma fueling...Intense
Practical movie effects, such as the use of actual locations in a film, provide a more...Easy
Iraqi artist Nazik Al-Malaika, celebrated as the first Arabic poet to write in free verse...Medium
Although novels and poems are considered distinct literary forms, many authors have...Easy
As a young historian in the 1950s, Alixa Naff began interviewing fellow Arab American...Medium
Okot p’Bitek’s poem Song of Lawino (1966) explores postcolonial Ugandan life through the...Easy
In 1815, while in exile in Jamaica, Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar penned a letter...Medium
The eruption of Rusty Geyser in Yellowstone National Park is caused by a sequence of...Easy
In Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek—where, early on, the author marvels at a single...Medium
John Quincy Adams employed the pseudonym “Marcellus”—a reference to a leader of an ancient...Easy
Architect Victor Gruen, the designer of Indiana's Woodmar Plaza shopping mall, conceived...Easy
The World Cup of men's soccer, one of the biggest sporting events on the planet, brought...Easy
A research team led by Cat Badihi has discovered that chimpanzees communicate through...Medium

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