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Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. Beginning as a cellist and conductor, Offenbach first wrote small-scale one-act pieces, limited by theatrical licensing laws. These eased by 1858 when he premiered his first full ...
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics that include number theory (the study of numbers), algebra (the study of formulas and related structures), geometry (the study ...
A man on the streets of Paris, France had to do a double take when he saw the strangest thing walking down the street. Is that a — no, it couldn't be. Right? There's no way he saw a wolf in the ...
Having a healthy diet, with foods like blueberries, avocado and nuts, is linked with better brain function, research finds. (Getty) (Liudmila Chernetska via Getty Images)
The Droste effect ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdrɔstə] ), known in art as an example of mise en abyme, is the effect of a picture recursively appearing within itself, in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This produces a loop which in theory could go on forever, but in practice only continues as far as the ...
Missoula native Wes Larson was at the Soda Butte Campground in Cooke City, Montana when he spotted something truly unusual — a moose, sprinting through the forest, with a bear following close ...
In mathematics, for a function , the image of an input value is the single output value produced by when passed . The preimage of an output value is the set of input values that produce . More generally, evaluating at each element of a given subset of its domain produces a set, called the " image of under (or through) ".
Doctors are prescribing antibiotics to most kids and teens who have pink eye, despite guidelines that discourage their use, researchers reported Thursday. More than two-thirds of U.S. children and ...