Can age and experience triumph over youth and raw strength in combat sports? Drawing on wisdom from Renaissance fencing masters and modern martial arts, this article explores how the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight mirrors centuries-old debates on the limits of […]
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This tiny Roman gladiator figurine used to be the handle on a folding knife. English Heritage Divers have discovered a 2,000-year-old copper knife handle, carved in the shape of a tiny gladiator, in an English river—evidence that widespread fascination with the
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John M Lund Photography Inc/Getty Images John M Lund Photography Inc/Getty Images Beyonce’s Renaissance brought house music back to mainstream audiences. But even when it wasn’t gracing the Grammys, house never went away. Born from the ashes of disco in
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General Ulysses Grant had surreptitiously moved his army and navy south of Vicksburg and created diversions to keep the Confederate commander Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton from knowing his whereabouts. But now, he had to cross the Mississippi River to
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D-Wave has completed calibrating and benchmarking its latest processor — a 4,400-plus-qubit behemoth that it claims is 25,000 times faster than its predecessor. The Advantage2 quantum processing unit (QPU) is designed for complex applications including artificial intelligence (AI), materials science
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American civil rights leader Susan B. Anthony Public Domain by Wikimedia Commons On November 18, 1872, a deputy federal marshal confronted Susan B. Anthony at her Rochester, New York, home. She was under arrest for the crime of voting in
