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Known as the Eroica, Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, expands the scale and expressive reach of the Classical symphony. It was originally associated with a dedication to Napoleon, which Beethoven withdrew. The opening movement develops its ideas across a broad, dramatic span, maki...

A restrained trumpet tone and a willingness to change musical direction made Miles Davis a central figure in modern jazz. The American trumpeter and composer, who lived from 1926 to 1991, helped shape cool jazz and modal jazz before exploring electric fusion. His playing often gave weight to space a...

Evolution by Natural Selection is a foundational theory in biology explaining how life forms change over time. Charles Darwin’s work details this process wherein individuals with advantageous traits for their specific environments are more likely to survive and pass those traits on to subsequent gen...

The Well-Tempered Clavier is a two-book collection by Johann Sebastian Bach for keyboard, with Book I compiled in 1722 and Book II completed around 1742. Each book contains 24 paired preludes and fugues, covering every major and minor key. The title refers to a well-tempered tuning system rather tha...

In the St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Johann Sebastian Bach recounts Christ's suffering and crucifixion through the Gospel of Matthew. The Baroque work combines biblical narration with reflective arias and chorales, allowing the story and responses to it to unfold together. Writing for two choirs and...

Planet Earth is a 2006 nature documentary miniseries produced as a co-production involving several international broadcasters. Filmed in high definition after five years of production, it was the most expensive nature documentary series commissioned by the BBC at the time. The series garnered numero...

Delivered from the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, I Have a Dream formed part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. called for an end to racial segregation and discrimination, connecting the civil rights movement to promises expressed in the Declaration of Inde...

First performed in Vienna in 1824, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, brings vocal expression into a work for large orchestra. Its finale introduces four solo singers and a chorus, principally setting words from Friedrich Schiller's An die Freude, commonly known in English as Ode to Joy...

Built for the Nintendo 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time follows Link's quest to save Hyrule through an adventure that moves between childhood and adulthood. Its three-dimensional world connects settlements and open spaces with dungeons built around exploration and puzzles. Sword combat works...

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...

Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather follows the Corleone crime family as authority passes between generations. Marlon Brando plays patriarch Vito Corleone, while Al Pacino portrays Michael, whose changing relationship with the family drives the story. The film examines how loyalty and personal ambi...

Leonardo da Vinci epitomized the Renaissance ideal of the universal genius. Though not a scientist in the modern, theoretical sense, his unparalleled powers of observation, detailed recording, and inventive engineering were profoundly scientific. His thousands of pages of notebooks reveal groundbrea...

The four-note opening of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, establishes a compact musical idea that drives much of the work. Its short rhythmic pattern returns in varied forms, showing how a small amount of material can generate a sustained orchestral argument. Often associated with fate...

Bach's Mass in B minor, BWV 232, sets the Latin Mass ordinary for vocal soloists, choir and orchestra on an expansive scale. He assembled its final form in 1748 and 1749, drawing extensively on music written earlier in his career. The result combines densely woven counterpoint with passages of direc...

Everyday inconveniences become elaborate comic problems in Seinfeld, a New York sitcom centered on Jerry and his friends George, Elaine and Kramer. Dating misunderstandings and arguments over social etiquette often matter more than any larger goal. The familiar description of a show about nothing ca...

Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, recounts the arrest, trial, crucifixion, and burial of Jesus using chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew. Written for vocal soloists, double chorus, and double orchestra, this large-scale sacred work gives the biblical narration to an Evange...

An open-world adventure set in Hyrule, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild puts exploration at the center of Link's journey. After an opening area introduces its systems, the game allows considerable freedom over routes and objectives. Climbing and gliding make the terrain part of the adventure,...

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...

Under the Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, created around 1831 during the late Edo period. It is the most widely recognized image from his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. The artwork depicts a massive rogue wave threatening three fishing boats near...

Completed in 1504, Michelangelo's David is a monumental marble sculpture showing the biblical hero before his confrontation with Goliath. The figure's poised stance contrasts with the tension suggested by his focused expression and readiness for action. Standing approximately five meters tall, the s...

Orson Welles's 1941 Citizen Kane investigates the life of fictional publishing magnate Charles Foster Kane through memories offered by people who knew him. Its flashbacks build a portrait of a man pursuing power while remaining troubled by his past. The shifting viewpoints leave room for disagreemen...

The Nürburgring is a renowned German sports venue located within the Eifel Mountains of western Germany. It’s historically significant as a challenging road course used for motorsport events including endurance racing and testing. The famed Nordschleife circuit, with its demanding elevation changes...

Returning to the Hyrule introduced in Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom expands exploration beyond the surface with floating sky islands and the extensive underground Depths. Familiar places become part of a broader adventure, while new routes and environmental challenges give returning playe...

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...

Set in wartime Casablanca, Michael Curtiz's 1942 romantic drama centers on Rick Blaine, an American expatriate who runs a nightclub. The arrival of a former lover and her resistance-leader husband forces him to confront a past he has tried to keep at a distance. Their need to escape turns an old emo...

Originally written as a ballet score, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring premiered in 1913 and became a central work of musical modernism. Its scenario depicts imagined pagan rituals culminating in a chosen young woman's sacrificial dance. Changing accents and repeated rhythmic figures give the or...

Adapted from George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Game of Thrones follows rival families competing for power in a fictional world shaped by dynastic rule. Political bargaining and shifting loyalties drive much of the drama, while supernatural dangers challenge conflicts that initiall...

Ancient DNA, rather than the shape of fossil bones alone, defines Svante Pääbo's contribution to the study of human evolution. The Swedish geneticist helped establish paleogenomics, a field that investigates genetic material preserved in ancient remains. He led research that produced a draft Neander...

The Statue of David is a 5.17-meter marble sculpture created by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo between 1501 and 1504. The statue depicts the biblical hero David before his battle with Goliath, a subject favored in Florentine art as a symbol of civic liberties. Originally placed in a pub...