Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...
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The turbulent and troubled life of Vivien Leigh comes to light in Lyndsy Spence's new book. Ysenda Maxtone Graham discovers the mental turmoil the actress battled with. Roger Lewis uncovers the ...
Though Prévost was not interested in creating his art solely for scientific purposes, his works were so precise and demonstrative of various plant species they have often been reproduced as color ...
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Artificial-intelligence tools such as ChatGPT might soon become fully autonomous by learning to perceive and interact with their environment.