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TIL that American Actor Peter Weller (Robocop) has a PhD in Italian Renaissance Art

by whatilearned May 31, 2022, 5:24 am

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How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe: An interesting article I’ve read lately

by HistoryBuff May 27, 2022, 10:01 am

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TIL Alan Menken, composer responsible for “Disney Renaissance” soundtracks like Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, etc. wrote a song exclusively for the Japanese Disney-Sea ride “Sinbad’s Storybook Adventure” and it’s only ever been officially released in Japanese.

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 1:47 am

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TIL Florentine society during Renaissance tacitly accepted male homosexuality but had a rigid rule: passive/receptive partner must be under 20 years of age while active partner had to be older (20s or early 30s). Reversing those roles was considered shocking and a deviation from the “natural order.”

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 5:47 pm

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TIL that Robocop actor, Peter Weller, earned a Ph. D in Italian Renaissance Art History in 2014

by whatilearned November 28, 2021, 11:50 pm

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TIL The Santa Maria Nuova hospital in Florence, still in operation today, was founded in 1288 by the father of Beatrice(one of the main characters in Dante’s devine comedy). The hospital is decorated with frescoes by renaissance masters and Leonardo studied anatomy at the same institution

by whatilearned November 19, 2021, 9:43 am

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TIL when brainstorming the time travel plot for Star Trek: First Contact, they considered sending the crew back to the Renaissance, befriending Leonardo da Vinci, and having sword fights alongside phaser fights. The idea was scrapped for being too campy and Patrick Stewart refused to wear tights.

by whatilearned November 13, 2021, 7:08 pm

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The Renaissance of Meteor.js

by ProgrammerDude November 2, 2021, 2:23 pm

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Firearms vs Armour in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.

by HistoryBuff October 15, 2021, 12:59 pm

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TIL that the manual alphabet for sign language was created by a Spanish Benedictine monk named Pedro Ponce de León in the 16th century as a pushback against the ‘Deaf are dumb’ prejudice that began during the Renaissance

by whatilearned October 9, 2021, 7:52 am

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An Egyptian comment regarding the Ethiopian renaissance dam

by CopyPastaArchive July 16, 2021, 2:00 am

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Were the native Americans “behind” the Europeans during the Renaissance?

by HistoryBuff July 14, 2021, 7:20 pm

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