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Two bronze heads, a rabbit and a rat, made the news in 2009 when they were sold at public auction in Paris during the sale of the Saint Laurent collection. A Chinese caricature gave these heads a feeling, making them cry and utter the following plea: "We …

Gehry waited almost thirty years before building his first skyscraper, Spruce Street in New York, completed in 2011, whose silhouette responds to both the piers of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Woolworth Building. His initial project on this theme dates …

In the 19th and 20th centuries , the historiography of the German territories - or at least of the territories of "Central Europe" (Mitteleuropa) - moved in different directions, in part following a pendulum movement driven by tendencies that were …

The first set of documents containing Coptic is that of the Melian monastery of Hathôr, in the Cynopolite or Héracléopolite nome, known from the archives of Apa Paiêous (c. 330-340), and those of his successor, direct or otherwise, Nepherôs (c. 360-370). …

Geometric data has revolutionized the way we perceive and interact with the three-dimensional world. More generally, data - geometric or otherwise - has taken on an essential role in modern science and, beyond that, in society as a whole. Developing a …

Knowledge of ancient Greek is required for the seminar. This session of the seminar was devoted to the reading and interpretation of one of the Coptic receipts of the Weill codex, issued by a certain Dorôthéos and written by a reader (anagnôstês ) …

Documents and media Download support Download lecture notes Abstract The aim of this lecture has been to show how dilute gases made up of atoms or matter-light composite particles can be used to test the various properties hitherto studied theoretically. …

Abstract Dipolar interactions are fundamentally different from the usual van der Waals forces in real gases. Besides the anisotropy, the dipolar interaction is nonlocal and as such allows for self-organized structure formation similar to the Rosensweig …

Spins are traditionally controlled by magnetic fields, which complicates the design of electronic devices exploiting the spin degree of freedom of the electrons. Through spin-transfer torque, an intense spin-polarized charge current can also act on the …

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After more than 150 years of excavations in various parts of the southern Levant, which is the main arena for the events described in the Bible, archaeology has led to a better understanding of the history of this region. It has provided a wealth of …

The Sistine Madonna is the last Madonna painted by Raphael, and one of the master's last works. Commissioned in 1512, the painting was placed before the altar in the chapel of the monastery of Saint Sixtus in Piacenza, Italy. In 1754, the Elector of …

The extraordinary success of Bilbao soon brought Gehry a large number of commissions from museums and exhibition spaces, leading him to explore new directions rather than plagiarize or pastiche his own work. This led him to reflect on museum space, …

In computing, a data structure is a way of organizing data into an internal model that makes it easier to process. An important example is the nearest neighbor search. If P is a given finite set of points and x a query point, we want to determine the …

Abstract The myth of the founding hero ("The Hero who was exposed at birth") plays an important and even structuring role in the Shāhnā̄me . The type , well attested in the ancient world (see particularly The Legend of the Birth of Sargon ), regularly …