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Greek Music
Restored through preserved poems, rhythms and musical instruments.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1st composition
Flight of the Bumblebee (1900)
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 2nd composition
Our Shining Days - East VS West
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Bob Dylan
It's The Flight of The Bumblebee
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Al Hirt
Dixieland Jazz Artist who made the Green Hornet Theme
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Guzheng
Chinese zither (harp)
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Pipa
Chinese lute
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Dizi
Chinese flute
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Suona
Chinese trumpet
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Johann Pachelbel
Canon in D (Bach's brother) (1680)
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Graduation (Friends Forever)
Vitamin C (1999)
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Because
The Beatles (Beethoven Moonlight Sonata)
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Ludovico Einaudi
Experience from Decca - Tiktok
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Rhapsody
One-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, color, and tonality.
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Rhapsody In Blue
George Gershwin (1924)
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Pomp and Circumstance
Sir Edward Elgar's Highschool Graduation Song
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Ode to Joy
Beethoven's 9th symphony (the one everyone knows, its also in peggle)
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Used in the EU anthem
Ode to Joy
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Babatunde Akinbobye
Nigerian-US baritone player and opera artist who became Tiktok famous
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Made by Stanley Kubrick, who changed music from Alex North to Richard Strauss in the Dawn of Man (monkey) scene in the beginning.
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Richard Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra
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Alex North
Composer of 2001, Dawn of Man
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Android Alter 3
Replaces human conductors
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Scary Beauty
Keiichiro Shibuya. played by Alter 3
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Arturo Toscanini
By the book conductor
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Wilhelm Furtwangler
Completely not by the book conductor. Also he conducted for Hitler (GG)
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John Williams
Composed and also conducted the Star Wars theme.
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Andrzej Kucybala
Conducted the Star Wars theme differently.
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Simon Thacker
Panchajanya - Indian insturments with white guy guitar
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The Ugly Little Boy
Isaac Asiimov
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Bruce Sterling
1st author of The Difference Engine
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William Gibson
2nd author of The Difference Engine
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The Difference Engine
A world where Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine (Computer). Defined the genre of Steampunk.
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Guy Gavriel Kay
Author of historical fantasy fiction.
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All the Seas of the World
Written by Guy Gavriel Kay.
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A Brightness Long Ago
All the Seas of the World precursor.
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Pablo Neruda
A Dog Has Died
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Henry Carlile
Dodo
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Hilaire Beloc
The Dodo
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Miriam Greenberg
Brazilian Telephone
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W.B. Yeats
The Municipal Gallery Revisited
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John Milton
On Shakespeare
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Robert G. Ingersoll
At the tomb of Napoleon
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Basho
Kyoto
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Koh buck Song
A Brief History of Toa Payoh
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
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Norman Dubie
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter
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Yesterday
Paul McCartney and The Beatles
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Memories
Maroon 5
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Poorani Jeans
Ali Haider
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You Who Sat Next To Me
Gao XiaoSong
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Sunrise, Sunset
Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick & John Williams
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Embe Dodo
Zilizopendwa - Them Mushrooms
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Mr. Sandman
The Chordettes - Copied by Back To The Future
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Jurassic Park
Realistic, used genome editing for dinosaurs.
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Jurassic world
Inaccurate dinosaurs
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Cloning
You need 100% of the original genetic material, which is impossible for de-extinction.
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Genome editing
CRISPR used to make an existing species similar to an extinct one.
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Back breeding
Selective breeding of closely related descendants that results in offspring that are similar in appearance to an extinct species
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Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT)
Reproductive cloning method in which the DNA of an adult donor's body cell is transferred into an unfertilized egg.
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Conditions for good de-extinction
1. The DNA didn't reduce to much
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2. Non migratory species
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3. The extinct embryo is smaller than the uterus.
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4. monogamous
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K-T boundary
layer of iridium-rich material between rocks of the Cretaceous period and rocks of the Paleogene period that provides evidence of a meteorite impact
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Christmas island rat
Tom Gilbert - 95% reconstructed cousin of the common lab rat.
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American Chestnut
Almost extinct but genome edited to be resistant to the fungus which was killing it.
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Wooly Mammoth
Possible to de-extinct through the Asian elephant
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George Church
Wants to de-extinct the wooly mammoth and place it in Siberia.
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Pyrenean Ibex
Extinct cousin of the Iberian Ibex, the last specimen was named Celia. Her DNA was used to make one more ibex who died minutes after birth.
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Passenger Pigeon
Was a bird that existed in North America until the early 20th century when it went extinct due to hunting and habitat destruction.
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Ben Novak
Wants to resurrect the Passenger Pigeon through back breeding and genome editing.
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Moa
Any ostrich-like flightless bird that got extinct due to Polynesian and colonist hunting.
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Dodo (Bird)
This bird is extinct because it had never encountered humans or egg-eating rats before it was too late.
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Auroch
Large bull, ancient ancestor of modern cattle, extinction in 1600s, painted in cave of Lascaux in Goa valley. Bringing them back will make them revive nature.
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Heinz and Lutz Heck
The Nazi creators of the Heck Cattle
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Heck Cattle
Failed recreation of Aurochs
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Old Man of Shandihar
Ralph Solecki found well preserved bodies of Neanderthals which showed that they were very social beings.
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AKA Shandihar 1, he was a handicapped Neanderthal who got to live to age 50 through being taken care of by his people.
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Hakeem Jeffries
House Minority Leader who made a speech after the Mar-a-Lago incident (trump house raid) and got famous as the next Obama.
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Liz Truss
Should've been against worker unions just like Margaret Thatcher did, but couldn't make it.
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Michael Jordan
Possibly succeeded by Lebron James and Kobe Bryant
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Nii Lamptey
Ghanaian player whose manager didn't take his time to develop him so he failed in Aston Villa as the next Pele.
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Freddy Abu
American player who dived head first at age 14 but failed miserably to become the next Pele.
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Kerlon
The Seal Dribble creator but failed miserably to become the next Pele.
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Bojan Krkic
Spaniard who played alongside Messi in his formative years but couldn't make it in the end.
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character.ai
Chatbot AI which lets you chat with historical and fictional characters.
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Jessica project
A project that tries to create a realistic AI-powered human that can interact with humans in a natural way.
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La Scala Opera House
Sold tickets for 2 euros
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Steve Hui
Somnium
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Rigoletto
Covid opera in Novi Sad
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Yuval Sharon
Covid opera of Twilight: Gods
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Dr. Samantha Ege
Pianist with cultural clothes
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Jess Gilam
Saxophonist with quirky clothes
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Ruth Gipps
Scolded for wearing a colored dress in 1944
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Yuja Wang
Criticized for wearing goofy clothes
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Philadelphia Orchestra
Decided to wear all black in performances
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Lady Gaga
Wears super goofy ahh dresses
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Classic FM
Created 30 second Carmen
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Orpheus
Jasdeep Singh Degun