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The Temple Mount, or, under its Muslim name, the Haram al-Sharif, in Jerusalem, offers a rare example of a sacred site to which several religious traditions refer. It constitutes a very special case for the historian of religions, who can follow the …

In 1773, Swedish King Gustav III (1746-1792) founded the Stockholm Opera House, an institution that still exists today. He had just restored strong royal power through a coup d'état. The two undertakings went hand in hand: "Gustavian" opera exalted a …

The apartments reserved for queens - reigning queens, queen regents and dowager queens - in royal palaces were considerably enlarged in the late 16th and 17th centuries. And while much of the art that adorned these spaces disappeared, it flourished during …

Abstract Life depends on the ability of living organisms to make efficient use of the chemical potential of their environment: the sun, for energy, and a number of molecules accumulated on the earth's surface (water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, …

Abstract The sixth and final lesson was devoted first to the discussion of error correction for the preservation of quantum information. Initially, the notion of quantum error correction seemed paradoxical, since in order to correct an error, one must …

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Abstract The fifth lesson began with a reminder of the basics of cavity electrodynamics, a subject developed at the Collège by Serge Haroche using a jet of Rydberg atoms passing through a superconducting cavity formed by two convex microwave mirrors …