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The third Gintama film, also known as Gintama: The Final, concludes the anime's main story by adapting the remaining Silver Soul material. Two years after the Tendoshuu's invasion of Edo's Central Terminal, the Yorozuya have separated. Expecting Utsuro's return, Gintoki searches Earth's ley lines fo...

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was a 1980 television series created by Carl Sagan and collaborators. It explored scientific subjects, primarily cosmology and its relation to life’s beginnings. The series gained prominence through a companion book and soundtrack sharing the same name, often referred to si...

An immense cross-country race begins in San Diego in Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the anime adaptation of the manga's seventh part. Set in the American Old West, the event attracts thousands of competitors with a fifty-million-dollar prize and a course stretching more than six thousand...

The surviving 1215 Magna Carta manuscripts are engrossments, formally written copies of a royal charter issued after negotiations between King John and rebellious barons at Runnymede. Four survive from that issue. Their clauses address feudal rights and royal administration, including taxation, just...

Made in 1632, Bernini's marble portrait of Cardinal Scipione Borghese depicts a major patron and collector in Rome. Close observation of the sitter's expression, clothing, and turned head gives the work its distinctive character. These details connect the cardinal's public position with the appearan...

Shinpachi Shimura's return to Edo opens this continuation of Gintama with an absurd apparent transformation of the cast. Gintoki and Kagura seem to have become different people, and the changes extend throughout the city. Even Shinpachi's sister Otae appears to have married Shinsengumi chief Isao Ko...

Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer whose work helped establish tube systems for tall buildings. At Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he contributed to the structural designs of Chicago's John Hancock Center and the 110-story Sears Tower, completed in 1973. These projects con...

German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays in 1895 while investigating electrical discharges. He produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range that became known as X-rays, also called Roentgen rays. The discovery showed that these rays could pass through materials op...

The Watergate Scandal refers to a major period of American political controversy stemming from an illegal break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in 1972. President Richard Nixon and his administration engaged in a prolonged cover-up attempting to conceal their involvement. The...

Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura return as the fun-loving but broke members of the Yorozuya team! Living in an alternate-reality Edo, where swords are prohibited and alien overlords have conquered Japan, they try to thrive on doing whatever work they can get their hands on. However, Shinpachi and Kagu...

Cell theory is a cornerstone of modern biology asserting that all life consists of cells. It highlights the fundamental unit of biological organization and explains how new cells develop from existing ones. This theory is essential for understanding diverse organisms, from bacteria to humans, and re...

Niels Steno (1638-1686) brought the habits of an anatomist to questions about the Earth's history. The Danish scholar's 1669 work, commonly called De Solido, set out principles that became foundations of stratigraphy, the study of rock layers. Superposition explains the order of undisturbed layers,...

Gintoki and the Yorozuya are in hiding after joining resistance to the bakufu in this Gintama installment, alongside Katsura and his Joui rebels. Nobume Imai and two Kiheitai members bring news that the Harusame pirates have turned against Kamui, captain of their Seventh Division, and their former a...

Albert Einstein changed physics by showing that familiar ideas about space and time depend on motion and gravity. His 1905 work introduced special relativity and the mass-energy relation E=mc², while his light-quantum proposal helped explain the photoelectric effect and develop quantum theory. Gener...

Shoah is a 1985 documentary film examining the Holocaust through extended interviews conducted by Claude Lanzmann. The eleven-year production involved filming at locations in Poland, including former extermination camps, and gathering testimonies from survivors, witnesses, and individuals associated...

Carved in Rome in 1619, Bernini's Damned Soul presents anguish through a marble head with an open mouth and tense facial features. It is commonly discussed alongside his Blessed Soul, with the pair offering contrasting spiritual states. Rather than depicting a calm sitter in the manner of a conventi...

Jennifer Clack (1947–2020) was a prominent British paleontologist who specialized in the evolution of early tetrapods. Based at the University of Cambridge, her extensive research on Devonian-era fossils fundamentally changed the scientific understanding of the fish-to-tetrapod transition. She is wi...

Harakiri is a 1962 Japanese film set during the Edo period under the Tokugawa shogunate. It depicts the rōnin Hanshirō Tsugumo’s request for seppuku, performed before a lord and his samurai, accompanied by an explanation of his circumstances. The narrative explores themes of societal pressure and de...

Beneath Westminster in London, the Churchill War Rooms preserve an underground government complex used during the Second World War. Known then as the Cabinet War Rooms, the site housed spaces from which Winston Churchill, senior ministers, military officers, and staff coordinated Britain's war effor...

S.W. Erdnase is the pseudonym of the author who wrote "The Expert at the Card Table," a pivotal instructional book first published in 1902. The text outlines techniques for card sleight of hand, including false shuffles, palming, and second dealing, serving both magicians and card sharps. Despite ov...

While Gintoki Sakata was away, the Yorozuya found themselves a new leader: Kintoki, Gintoki's golden-haired doppelganger. In order to regain his former position, Gintoki will need the help of those around him, a troubling feat when no one can remember him! Between Kintoki and Gintoki, who will claim...

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a Chinese television series based on Luo Guanzhong’s 14th-century novel. Produced by CCTV in 1994, the 84-episode series utilized extensive battle scenes and involved over 400,000 cast and crew members. The project, costing 170 million yuan, was completed over four y...

Cecilia Payne, later Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, was a British-born astronomer whose 1925 doctoral thesis changed the understanding of stellar composition. Using spectroscopy, the analysis of light separated into its component wavelengths, she concluded that stars contain far more hydrogen and helium...

A marble portrait head found at Tusculum near Rome, the Tusculum bust is commonly identified as Julius Caesar and generally dated to his lifetime. Its lean face, pronounced cheekbones, and visible signs of aging distinguish it from later idealized images associated with him. These features make it i...

Alfred Sherwood Romer studied vertebrate evolution with particular attention to the early history of animals that lived on land. An American paleontologist and biologist working during the twentieth century, he combined fossil research with a broad understanding of anatomy. His fieldwork and studies...

Canadian geophysicist John Tuzo Wilson (1908-1993) helped turn continental drift into a more complete account of how the Earth's surface moves. During the 1960s, he proposed mantle hotspots as an explanation for volcanic island chains such as Hawaii. He also introduced transform faults, showing how...

Light and shadow give Rembrandt van Rijn's paintings much of their dramatic force. The Dutch Golden Age artist (1606-1669) used chiaroscuro, strong contrasts between illuminated and darker areas, to direct attention and suggest emotional depth. His portraits and self-portraits show sustained interes...

Gregor Mendel was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar whose work revolutionized biology. Through careful observation of pea plant traits, he identified patterns of inheritance – now known as Mendel’s Laws. His quantitative genetics research provided the foundational basis for modern genetics...

Jean-Antoine Houdon's bust of Voltaire is a Neoclassical portrait of the French writer and philosopher, made from Houdon's direct study of the aging sitter and represented in several versions. Its restrained modeling records Voltaire's lined face, thin hair, and alert expression rather than presenti...