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History Of Robots ... Chinese accounts relate a history of automata back to the 10th century BC when Yan Shi is credited with making an automaton resembling a human in an account from the Lie Zi text. Western and Eastern civilisations have concepts of artificial servants and companions with a long history...

Theory Of Painting ... Kandinsky, in 1911, reprised Goethe, agreeing that painting needed a solid foundational theory, and such theory should be patterned after the model of music theory, and adding that there is a deep relationship between all the arts, not only between music and painting... The comparison of painting with music gained much regard among the avant-garde artists of 1920s, the Weimar culture period, like Paul Klee...

Fool's Mate (album) ... Fool's Mate includes one of Hammill's most celebrated love songs, "Vision", which he still performs regularly in concert to the present day. Guest musicians on the album included the members of Van der Graaf Generator, members of his label mates Lindisfarne, and guitarist Robert Fripp...

China Black ... Their music is typified by heavy, lush string arrangements, gospel choirs, a dance/pop/reggae beat, pizzicato strings and mostly minor chord arrangements on piano... Second time lucky (1994-1995) 1994 in British pop music was notable for a growing pop/reggae crossover trend...

Film ... It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry. Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them...

Music ... The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context... Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms... Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial...

Transhumanism ... The contemporary meaning of the term transhumanism was foreshadowed by one of the first professors of futurology, FM-2030, who taught "new concepts of the Human" at The New School of New York City in the 1960s, when he began to identify people who adopt technologies, lifestyles and world views transitional to "posthumanity" as "transhuman". This hypothesis would lay the intellectual groundwork for the British philosopher Max More to begin articulating the principles of transhumanism as a futurist philosophy in 1990, and organizing in California an intelligentsia that has since grown into the worldwide transhumanist movement...

Change (band) ... The follow-up album, Miracles was released in 1981. It was created by the same collection of writers and producers as had worked on the debut album...

Education In Germany ... German secondary education includes five types of school. The Gymnasium is designed to prepare pupils for university education and finishes with the final examination Abitur, after grade 12 or 13...

Digital Rights Management ... The use of digital rights management is controversial. Content providers claim that DRM is necessary to fight copyright infringement online and that it can help the copyright holder maintain artistic control or ensure continued revenue streams...

Michael Jackson's Vision ... Ten music videos previously unavailable on DVD including "One More Chance" are included. It was also released on the iTunes Store and features iTunes LP features...

Ballet ... In the 20th century, ballet had a strong influence on broader concert dance. For example, in the United States, choreographer George Balanchine developed what is now known as neoclassical ballet...

Linux ... Linux was originally developed as a free operating system for Intel x86-based personal computers. It has since been ported to more computer hardware platforms than any other operating system...

The Arts ... Art is a global activity which encompasses a host of disciplines, as evidenced by the range of words and phrases which have been invented to describe its various forms. Examples of such phraseology include: Fine Arts, Liberal Arts, Visual Arts, Decorative Arts, Applied Arts, Design, Crafts, Performing Arts, and so on...

Blog ... The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users. (Previously a knowledge of such technologies as HTML and FTP had been required to publish content on the Web.) Although not a must, most good quality blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via GUI widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites...

Mobile Phone ... In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also support a wide variety of other services such as text messaging, MMS, email, Internet access, short-range wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth), business applications, gaming and photography. Mobile phones that offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones...

Film Crew ... Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in the film. Crew are also separate from producers, those who own a portion of either the film company or the film's intellectual property rights...

List Of Dances ... It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. There may also be listed dances which could either be considered a specific dance or a family of related dances, depending on your perspective...

Virtual Reality ... Virtual reality is often used to describe a wide variety of applications commonly associated with immersive, highly visual, 3D environments. The development of CAD software, graphics hardware acceleration, head mounted displays, database gloves, and miniaturization have helped popularize the notion...

Education In Scotland ... Traditionally, the Scottish system at secondary school level has emphasized breadth across a range of subjects, while the English, Welsh and Northern Irish systems have emphasised greater depth of education over a smaller range of subjects. Following this, Scottish universities generally have courses a year longer (typically 4 years) than their counterparts elsewhere in the UK, though it is often possible for students to take more advanced specialised exams and join the courses at the second year...

BT Vision ... BT Vision is a "hybrid" transmission service; it delivers TV channels on the digital terrestrial (DVB-T) platform (using a Freeview decoder) and on-demand content via IPTV through a hybrid DTT/IP/PVR set-top box, known as the Vision+. BT Vision requires access to a BT Broadband internet connection with BT's official router (BT Home Hub) to watch programmes, and does not use the customer's broadband allowance...

Future ... In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal. Religions consider the future when they address issues such as karma, life after death, and eschatologies that study what the end of time and the end of the world will be...

African-American Dance ... Genres by period 19th century Dance genres: Tap dancing Cakewalk 1930s and 1940s Dance genres and moves: Swing Lindy hop Charleston Texas Tommy 1960s Music Genres: Northern Soul Motown Dance moves: Hustle Monkey 1970s Music Genres: Funk Disco Dance genres and moves: Popping Locking The Robot The Worm 1980s and 1990s See also: Hip hop music Dance genres and moves: Break-dancing Moonwalk Voguing Cabbage patch Running Man 2000s Dance genres and moves: Krumping Lite Feet Turfing Chicken Noodle Soup Crip Walk Jerkin' Harlem shake Detroit Ballroom Jukin' Texas Swingout Dougie Flexing Performance, competition and social dance In a dance culture there is often no distinction between 'dance' spaces and 'non-dances spaces'... Cultural expression Lee Ellen Friedland and other authors argue that to talk about cultural dancing without talking about music or art or drama is li...