The metaphor of people standing on the shoulders of giants expresses the meaning of "discovering truth by building on previous discoveries".This concept has been traced to the 12th century. Its most familiar expression in English is by Isaac Newton in 1675: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of…
Servicewomen march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade, which marks the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the second world war in Red Square. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
The huge futuristic spiral known as El Helicoide has a reputation as the country's worst torture center. It has become a "dark site" where different Venezuelan police forces have their headquarters, in particular the intelligence agency Sebin and the PNB (national police). Several inmates have alleged abuses at the prison,…
Dec. 12. 1913 Mona Lisa recovered in Florence ,Two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Mona Lisa is recovered inside Italian waiter Vincenzo Peruggia’s hotel room in Florence. Peruggia had previously worked at the Louvre and had participated in the…
The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other high explosives. In his will, Nobel directed that the bulk of…
