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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024

Picture of the Year 2024 is the nineteenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons image competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons.

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In the second round, you may vote for up to 3 finalists you like. Each of these 3 votes counts equally and you can only vote for each finalist once.

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Last year's winner, Incense in Vietnam:

Photo taken in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam. In this picture, incense sticks are being set out to dry, after being dipped in the incense solution. Author: Trantuanviet

https://antiquitasviva.com/the-unclassical-balkans/

Special issue of journal Жива антика / Antiquité Vivante no. 11. Edited by Feđa Milivojević, Vojislav Sarakinski & Julia Tzvetkova.

The present volume, The Unclassical Balkans, attempts to bridge these gaps in the research of the region in the period of Antiquity by bringing together a diverse collection of studies exploring the ancient societies of the Balkan Peninsula as they existed alongside and beyond the classical Greek and Roman worlds. This deliberate departure from the traditional Graeco- and Romano-centric lens aims, instead, to illuminate the cultural multiplicity, regional specificity, and historical complexity of the local societies, as well as to emphasise their historical position between the Mediterranean region and Central Europe.

The chronological scope of the volume spans from prehistory (the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods), during which the emergence of local cultural phenomena and practices may have first emerged, through the multifaceted developments of the Iron Age, up to and including the profound political and social transformations resulting from the Roman expansion and integration into the Roman Empire. Rather than relying solely on Greek or Roman narratives, these studies emphasise local agency, indigenous material cultures, and internal dynamics — whether in patterns of social organisation, the structure of the settlement network, trade and economic practices, or in their responses to colonisation and conquest.

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“I never liked film music very much,” Williams said to The Guardian’s Dalya Alberge, “Film music, however good it can be — and it usually isn’t, other than maybe an eight-minute stretch here and there … I just think the music isn’t there. What we think of as this precious great film music … we’re remembering it in some kind of nostalgic way. Just the idea that film music has the same place in the concert hall as the best music in the canon is a mistaken notion, I think.”

Dürer's work on human proportions is called the Four Books on Human Proportion (Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion) of 1528. The first book was mainly composed by 1512/13 and completed by 1523, showing five differently constructed types of both male and female figures, all parts of the body expressed in fractions of the total height. Dürer based these constructions on both Vitruvius and empirical observations of "two to three hundred living persons", in his own words. The second book includes eight further types, broken down not into fractions but an Albertian system, which Dürer probably learned from Francesco di Giorgio's De harmonica mundi totius of 1525. In the third book, Dürer gives principles by which the proportions of the figures can be modified, including the mathematical simulation of convex and concave mirrors; here Dürer also deals with human physiognomy. The fourth book is devoted to the theory of movement.

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