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The Infinite Art Tournament frees art appreciation from the straitjackets of chronology and categorical conventions in order to place it in a new straitjacket of its own devising. The IAT further seeks to delight its community of bracingly intelligent and drop-dead sexy readers with glib but cheerful dispatches from the worlds of literature, film, the visual arts, music, Shakespeare, chemistry, postal ephemera, vexillology, and hagiography.
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There's no feeling on Earth, I've found, like taking your seat for a 40-hour train ride and noticing, right at that moment, that one's laptop computer went missing between your home and the station. I can't really recommend it, though.There wasn't much information on the machine
November's Element of the Month:Cerium! Ce58Atomic Mass: 141.116 amuMelting Point: 795 °CBoiling Point: 3443 °CBack in October we got to learn about Jöns Jakob Berzelius's role in t
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John Wycliffe
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October's Element of the Month:Selenium! Se34Atomic Mass: 78.971 amuMelting Point: 221 °CBoiling Point: 685 °CYou may remember that a few Elements back, when we were chatting about
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St. CleopasAKA: Possibly "Clopas." There seems to be two schools of thought about whether Cleopas and Clopas are the same guy.Feast Day: September 25 in Catholicism; however, October 30 in Eastern Orthodoxy and November 10 for the
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And, the winner of the Infinite Art Tournament is:Pieter Bruegel.He beat Vincent van Gogh fair and square in the rematch for a tenth uninterrupted victory overall.Time to get started on the commemorative marker:
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