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"Lovers in an Upstairs Room" is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro, created around 1788 during the Edo period. The artwork is a shunga print extracted from "Utamakura" (Poem of the Pillow), one of Utamaro's most recognized erotic illustrated albums. This intimate scene...

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife is a shunga ukiyo-e woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, published in 1814 in the illustrated book Kinoe no Komatsu. It depicts a nude woman entwined with two octopuses in an intimate scene combining erotic fantasy and marine imagery. The print is a single-page de...

Hokusai’s *The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife* (1814) is a Japanese woodcut notable for its imaginative depiction of a fisherman transformed into a fearsome dragon. Created during the Edo period, this shunga print explores themes of fantasy and transformation. It was produced for the ukiyo-e genre wh...

A Touch of Frost is a British crime drama series following Detective Inspector Jack Meadows as he investigates murders in London’s East End. Starring David Jason, the show ran for eighteen years on ITV from 1992 to 2010 adapting novels by R.D. Wingfield. It's notable for its realistic portrayal of p...

Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian television series exploring crime and investigation during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. The show centers on Detective William Murdoch's use of innovative forensic techniques – including early fingerprinting and photography – to solve complex cases in Toronto...

Satdhara Stupa No. 1 is the largest Buddhist monument at the Satdhara archaeological site in Madhya Pradesh, India. Satdhara belongs to a group of early Buddhist stupa sites in the wider Sanchi region and contains several stupas, monasteries, and related remains. Stupa No. 1 functioned as a relic mo...

The Deorkothar Stupa is an important archaeological site located in Madhya Pradesh, India, dating back to the 3rd century BCE. Excavations have revealed Mauryan-period rock art and four surviving monolithic pillars, highlighting the site's historical significance in early Buddhist architecture. It p...

Sonari Stupa No. 1 is an early Buddhist monument located near Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh, India. British archaeologists Alexander Cunningham and F. C. Maisey excavated the stupa in 1851, discovering relic chambers containing artifacts. The site belongs to a group of stupas in the Sanchi area and dates...

Andher Stupa No. 1 is a prominent ancient Buddhist monument located at the archaeological site of Andher, near Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh, India. Dating to roughly the 2nd century BCE during the Shunga period, it stands as the largest of three extant stupas discovered at the site. The structure is his...

"Now That's What I Call an Era: Disco" is a compilation album issued as part of the long-running "Now That's What I Call Music" franchise in the United Kingdom. The album features a curated collection of popular disco hits primarily from the 1970s, highlighting the genre's widespread cultural impact...

Now That's What I Call an Era: Such a Good Feeling is a British compilation album that collects classic 1990s electronic dance music and euphoric house anthems.

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film directed by Charles Reisner. Featuring nearly all MGM’s stars, the two-hour production utilized Technicolor segments and employed Conrad Nagel and Jack Benny as masters of ceremonies. It served as MGM's second feature-length m...

The Andher Stupa is an ancient Buddhist monument located in Madhya Pradesh, India. It belongs to the historic Sanchi group of monuments and dates back to the Shunga period. The structure serves as a reliquary that contained the remains of early Buddhist monks and teachers. Archaeological investigati...

"Now That's What I Call an Era: (Feels Like) Heaven" is a compilation album released in the United Kingdom as part of the extensive "Now That's What I Call Music" series. Issued in the early 2020s, this specific edition focuses on the new wave, synth-pop, and alternative pop music that defined the 1...

NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) computers possess dozens to hundreds of qubits but are error-prone, limiting their ability to solve complex problems reliably compared to fault-tolerant machines.

Now That's What I Call an Era: The Sound of the Suburbs is a British various-artists compilation in the long-running Now That's What I Call Music series. Its selection focuses on music associated with the late 1970s and early 1980s, particularly new wave, post-punk, ska revival, power pop, and relat...

Now That's What I Call an Era: The Albums is a British compilation album that curates popular album-oriented rock and pop tracks, diverging from the traditional single-heavy releases.

The Bharhut Stupa was a Buddhist reliquary monument in present-day Madhya Pradesh, India, built during the Shunga period in the 2nd century BCE. Its stone railings and gateways were covered with inscriptions, medallions, and narrative reliefs, including representations associated with the Buddha's p...

Bob Gerard was a British racing driver and privateer who competed in the early years of the Formula One World Championship. He is associated with Cooper-Bristol cars and entered Grand Prix events as an independent competitor, during a period when private teams and modified sports-car machinery were...

Leslie Johnson was a British racing driver, team owner, and sports-car competitor who took part in one Formula One World Championship race. He started the 1950 British Grand Prix at Silverstone for ERA in an ERA E-Type and retired after two laps when the car suffered a mechanical failure. Johnson is...

Thomas Cuthbert Harrison, known as Cuth, was a British racing driver who entered three Formula One World Championship Grands Prix in 1950. Driving an ERA B Type, he finished seventh at the inaugural British Grand Prix, retired after an accident at Monaco, and finished ninth at the Italian Grand Prix...