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🎁 Looking for an original present for anybody curious to learn about the fascinating history of chess & its remarkable impact on culture, art, science, education, social advancement, prison reform and more?
FILM PAGE: ideasroadshow.com/chess/
BOOK PAGE: ideasroadshow.com/chessays/
Fantastic new film. It does far more than what the headline says, it is a thoughtful inquiry, especially into global warming, and highlights many voices not traditionally included.
"New film underscores Doomsday Clock’s importance and Bulletin history"
Petrov-Day is September 26th and named after Stanislav Petrov. This Man single handedly stopped total Nuclear War with his scepticism. His concerns about the credibility of incoming missile attack signals via the air-defense computer prohibited the self-genozide of humans. Our portrait may help a little to awareness.
share, boost and remember all friends and foes about this important #PetrovDay
Centuries ahead of its time, Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624) depicts figures made from a range of objects, mostly abstract — cubes, rings, squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, and braided hair.
Your twenty second recommendation for the month is Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape by Jake West, one of many wonderful documentaries that West has helmed on this topic. All of them are worth your time.
Take a look at the "classical" error in the set-up of these gorgeous Cycladic #chess pieces that I saw in the gift shop of the Cycladic Museum in Athens.
🎥 Talking about gift shops: Did you watch Through the Mirror of Chess: A Cultural Exploration yet? This is a great time to get the DVD which is now for a limited time for sale with a big discount on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com//dp/B0C13M1B84/
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Film page: https://ideasroadshow.com/chess/
🆕 “Fogo no Lodo”, a #documentary directed by Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca, will premiere at the #Doclisboa on 22 October, in the Portuguese Competition.
The film is an engaging approach to a complex dynamic where religious forms and political turbulence intersect and merge to claim the future of a community in contemporary #GuineaBissau. 🇬🇼
In WW2, the movement of millions of American troops to Britain, known as the “friendly invasion,” brought to light stark differences concerning racial segregation. Many Britons struggled to understand or accept the institutionalized discrimination that Black soldiers faced in White America, leading to tensions between the two allied nations on the matter of civil rights.
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Institutional racism was so common that also in 1944, in the USA, soldiers of color could not eat in the same dining room and had to give up their seats to captured NAZI prisoners. They couldn't supervise whites and had to give up their stripes.
Source: From the #documentary Medal of Honor → Temporada 1 Episodio 3. Edward Carter. [Netflix, 2018]