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Algorithims designed to determine the accuracy of facts have proven equal to humans though the results are only as good as its sources. #robots #ai #facts #technology #future #programming

The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau depicts a lion above a gypsy sleeping in the desert night sky. #art #rousseau #gypsy #lion #desert

The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram was created in 1910 as a step towards understanding stellar evolution by plotting the relationship of a stars' magnitude, luminosity, temperatures and spectral classifications. #space #evolution #science #astronomy #stars

French post-impressionist painter and writer, Emile Henri Bernard, worked on a style of painting called Cloisonnism in which cloisons (wires) separate bold and flat forms. #art #emilebernard #impressionism #nature #bodies #painting

Narrated by an extant being called Qfwfq, Italo Calvino's 'Cosmicomics' presents scientific 'facts' through a collection of memories that build up to the history of the universe. #calvino #cosmos #universe #science #narrative #extantbeings #art

Romance Campesino, Molina, Miami #Molina #Miami #romance #art #campesino (at Molina Art Gallery Inc)

The 1901 McMillan Plan for Washington D.C. was a proposal to create a monumental core as an expression of the governments legitimacy in a changing and confusing era of expansion. #plans #cities #ideas #drawings #washington #america (at Washington, District of Columbia)

While undergoing surgery for abdominal cancer in 1941, Henri Matisse worked in collage and decoupage because he could no longer paint or sculpt. The result, a series of prints under the title Jazz, linked drawing and color. #art #matisse #jazz #collage #color (at France)

A Star Child is an immortal being that resides in space and represents a jump in evolution assisted by beings beyond human comprehension. #space #starchild #film #2001 #kubrick #art #scifi #universe #baby #child (at Space)

Max Pechstein was a German expressionist painter and printmaker that was vilified by the Nazis because of his primitivist forms and figures. #art #printmaking #etching #painting #Pechstein #expressionism #primitivism #germany (at Zwickau, Germany)

Mandrake root was believed to have occult powers because it resembles a human torso and was believed to shriek when uprooted. Dogs were used to harvest mandrake because human hands were not to come in contact with the plant. #plants #botany #superstition #mandrake #medieval #harvest #art #drawing

RCA Laboratories' color TV system would test well and become the standard in 1953. Color broadcasts were created with three blended monochrome red, green, and blue channels. #invention #television #rainbow #colors #america USA #history #rgb (at RCA Laboratories, USA)

The moon represented in 1614 by Christoph Scheiner and others addressed the moon's uneven mountainous qualities observed by the naked eye. #art #diagram #science #observation #space #moon #drawing #information #documentation (at Ingostadt, Germany)

At the Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men) in 1393, Charles VI of France performed in a dance with five other members of the French nobility. During the dance a torch set the dancers on fire killing four of the nobles. The event was held to cheer up the young king who suffered an attack of insanity the previous summer. #history #art #dancing #fire #tragedy #ball #masquerade #insanity #charlesvi #paris #france (at Paris, France)

The Edsel Teletouch Drive was a logical progression in making the steering wheel the central command center by shifting gears with a press of a button. It ended up being a very confusing and failure prone system. #inventions #design #cars #automobiles #ideas #concept #fordmotorcompany #50s #america (at Ford Motor Company, Michigan)

In the summer following the Great Fire of Rome, Emperor Nero attempted to divert public suspicion of his involvement by fabricating scapegoats among the most notoriously depraved Christians. They were farcically shamed in his pleasure gardens by being dressed in animal skins, torn apart by dogs, crucified, or turned into torches. The public pitied the Christians and felt that this was all to satisfy one man's brutality. #history #fire #tragedy #blame #desire #brutality #christians #nero #rome #italy (at Rome, Italy)

Gustav Klimt's 'The Kiss' in 1909 depicts a couple locked in intimacy as the rest of the gilded painting falls away. It embodies the fin-de-siècle spirit of a simultaneous period of hope and new beginnings and degenerating decadence. #art #painting #klimt #kiss #findesiecle #spirit #gold #vienna (at Belvedere Palace, Vienna)