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Gintama: THE FINAL is the 3rd and final film adaptation of the remainder of the Silver Soul arc and is the series finale. Two years have passed following the Tendoshuu's invasion of the O-Edo Central Terminal. Since then, the Yorozuya have gone their separate ways. Foreseeing Utsuro's return, Gin...

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...

In the American Old West, the world's greatest race is about to begin. Thousands line up in San Diego to travel over six thousand kilometers for a chance to win the grand prize of fifty million dollars. With the era of the horse reaching its end, contestants are allowed to use any kind of vehicle th...

Magna Carta was a royal charter issued in 1215 after negotiations between King John of England and rebellious barons at Runnymede. Its clauses addressed feudal rights, royal administration, taxation, justice, and the liberties of the English Church, although much of the original settlement was soon...

Bernini's marble bust of Cardinal Scipione Borghese is a Baroque portrait made in 1632 for the cardinal, a major patron and collector in Rome. The work is known for its close observation of the sitter's expression, clothing, and turned head. After noticing a flaw in the marble across the face, Berni...

After a one-year hiatus, Shinpachi Shimura returns to Edo, only to stumble upon a shocking surprise: Gintoki and Kagura, his fellow Yorozuya members, have become completely different characters! Fleeing from the Yorozuya headquarters in confusion, Shinpachi finds that all the denizens of Edo have un...

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. Tube structures us...

Wilhelm Roentgen was a German physicist who discovered X-rays in 1895. He produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Roentgen rays. His discovery provided the foundation for medical radiography, allowing physicians to see inside the human body non-...

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) was a Danish anatomist and geologist who established foundational principles of stratigraphy. In his 1669 work "De Solido," he formulated the law of superposition, the principle of original horizontality, and the principle of lateral continuity. These concepts explained how r...

After joining the resistance against the bakufu, Gintoki and the gang are in hiding, along with Katsura and his Joui rebels. The Yorozuya is soon approached by Nobume Imai and two members of the Kiheitai, who explain that the Harusame pirates have turned against 7th Division Captain Kamui and their...

Albert Einstein revolutionized our concepts of space, time, gravity, and energy, dismantling the Newtonian framework that had reigned for centuries. His Annus Mirabilis papers of 1905 introduced special relativity (E=mc²) and the photon theory of light, challenging absolute space and time and laying...

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...

Bernini's Damned Soul is a marble bust carved in Rome in 1619 and commonly discussed alongside his Blessed Soul as a study in contrasting spiritual states. The head turns upward with an open mouth and tense features, presenting an image of anguish rather than a conventional calm portrait. The work i...

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...

The Churchill War Rooms are a preserved underground government complex beneath Westminster in London and part of Imperial War Museums. Known during the Second World War as the Cabinet War Rooms, the site sheltered the rooms from which Winston Churchill, senior ministers, military officers, and staff...

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 was a pioneering astronomer who fundamentally altered our understanding of stellar composition. Her 1925 doctoral thesis, utilizing spectroscopic analysis, demonstrated conclusively that stars are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium – a revolutionary departure from prevailing the...

The Tusculum bust is a marble portrait head commonly identified as Julius Caesar and generally dated to his lifetime, making it important for the study of Roman portraiture. It was found at Tusculum, near Rome, and differs from later idealized images in its lean face, pronounced cheekbones, and agin...

Alfred Sherwood Romer was an American paleontologist and biologist who extensively researched the evolution of vertebrates during the 20th century. He served as a professor at Harvard University and the director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Romer wrote foundational academic textbooks, such...

John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) was a Canadian geophysicist who made significant contributions to the theory of plate tectonics. In the 1960s, he proposed the existence of mantle hotspots to explain volcanic island chains like Hawaii and introduced the concept of transform faults. He served as the dire...

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) stands as a towering figure of the Dutch Golden Age, renowned for his masterful use of chiaroscuro and his profound psychological insight. His portraits, both of himself and others, reveal a remarkable ability to capture human emotion and vulnerability. Rembrandt's inn...

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...