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Many people have heard the phrase “Schrödinger’s cat.” The cat that is said to be both alive and dead has become known as a strange symbol of the uncertainty inherent in quantum mechanics. And the creator of this thought experiment was t...

In the history of painting, few figures lived a life that was itself a work of art as completely as Pablo Picasso. By establishing Cubism, he overturned at the root the very notions of “what painting is” and “how reality is to be se...

Among the monarchs of English history, few have stirred the imagination quite like her. Elizabeth I. Known as the “Virgin Queen,” she led 16th-century England into a golden age. She defeated the Spanish Armada, saw the flowering of Shake...

In the early 19th century, when London’s fog still wrapped the city in its familiar scent, a man moved between the salons and the bedrooms of high society, armed only with poetry. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.A leading figure of ...

On a moonlit night in Kyoto, the pale light brushed over the tiled rooftops.Down a narrow alley walked a lone monk, a gourd in his hand and a love letter hidden in his robe—his name was Ikkyū Sōjun. Known to many as the witty and mischie...

The Renaissance city of Florence. Spring rain falls on cobbled streets, and a faint scent of roses drifts through the alleys. There, a boy held a paintbrush—Raphael Sanzio. Praised as a "genius of beauty," he would later be counted among...