Examines various current events along with historical facts
Examines various current events along with historical facts
Chopin’s (1810-1849) No. 15 in D-flat major, commonly known as “Raindrops,” is one of 24 Preludes, Op. 28, completed and published in 1839, known as a piece evoking the image of mist-like raindrops gently floating through the air, transforming into…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a suspenseful epic science fiction film depicting the events that occur during a manned mission to Jupiter in the year 2001 accompanied by HAL 9000, an AI (artificial intelligence) that controls the spaceship, in…
Zatoichi is a kyōkaku (侠客, a wanderer with a chivalrous spirit) from the Edo period, and tells the story of a blind masseur (座頭, zato) named Ichi (市, the blind man’s common name) who travels around the country, meeting and…
As September arrives, the angle and color temperature of the sunlight in the mornings and evenings suddenly begin to take on an autumnal appearance. This is probably because the sun’s altitude decreases and sunlight travels a longer distance through the atmosphere…