QUOTE OF THE DAY

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…

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY : Dec. 12. Mona Lisa recovered in Florence

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…

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