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dada chess: logic vs. transcendence

Lenin’s chance meeting with dadaist Tristan Tzara in 1916 was ostensibly arranged to play chess. Was there something in Dada that piqued the revolutionary passions? Or was it a case of a parallax gap; two points between which no connection, … Continue reading

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THE PRODIGIES: CHECK-MATE ON GENIUS

The cutoff for what is often considered ”gifted”  is an IQ score that is among the top two percent of the population, which is a score of 130 on the Wechsler scales, or 132 on the Stanford-Binet scale. This  sole … Continue reading

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Artistic Identity In Exile

Armenia is a land-locked nation in the region of Eurasia southwest of the Caspian Sea. Their history has been marked by innumerable invasions, with Armenia having only intermittent degrees of sovereignty from the full and fledging to all shades,variations and … Continue reading

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