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Charlotte Corday Being Conducted to Her Execution
Depiction of Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, being led out of her cell to the guillotine on 17 July 1793. Standing at the far left is the painter Jean-Jacques Hauer who has just finished his portrait of her. Painting by...
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Tu Marcellus eris
Painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1812 CE, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium. In the Aeneid, Aeneas sees Marcellus in the Underworld and is saddened by Marcellus' early death. When this passage is read to Augustus (Marcellus' uncle...
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Photograph of Puccini and Toscanini
A 1910 photograph of the composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) and the conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957). (The New York Public Library)
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From Slave to Rebel Gladiator: The Life of Spartacus
Sign up for our newsletter and never miss an animation: http://bit.ly/TEDEdNewsletter View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/from-slave-to-rebel-gladiator-the-life-of-spartacus-fiona-radford Spartacus was a slave — one of...
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The Murder of Hypatia of Alexandria
Dive into the life of one of Ancient Rome’s most powerful figures, Hypatia of Alexandria, a renowned scholar and political advisor to the city's leaders. — In the city of Alexandria in 415 CE, the bishop and the governor were...
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The history of the world according to cats - Eva-Maria Geigl
Sign up for our newsletter and never miss an animation: http://bit.ly/TEDEdNewsletter View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-history-of-the-world-according-to-cats-eva-maria-geigl In ancient times, wildcats were fierce carnivorous...
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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was an Italian composer best known for his operas La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. Puccini drew inspiration from a wide range of literary sources, and his late Romantic music with its immortal...