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How WWI gave birth to modernism

Posted: October 31, 2014 at 12:40 pm

How World War I changed art

How World War I changed art

How World War I changed art

How World War I changed art

How World War I changed art

How World War I changed art

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Editor's note: This is the ninth in a series on the legacies of World War I appearing on CNN.com/Opinion in the weeks leading up to the 100-year anniversary of the war's outbreak. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is guest editor for the series. Ara Merjian is associate professor of Italian Studies at New York University, where he is an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History. He is the author of "Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Paris, Modernism" (Yale University Press, June 2014).

(CNN) -- The years preceding World War I in Europe are generally referred to as the "Belle Epoque" -- a cultural and economic golden age. The period was hardly one of utter utopia for all citizens. But in the wake of the conflagration that would shake the globe beginning in August 1914, it came later to be seen as a period of calm before the storm. Its cultural practices, too, seem tinged with an almost naive optimism.

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Hubble telescope caught in staring contest with Jupiter

Posted: October 30, 2014 at 2:51 pm

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Recently, while observing changes in Jupiter's most famous atmospheric cyclone, the swirling Great Red Spot, Hubble found itself caught in the eye of the storm, so to speak.

As the telescope honed in on Jupiter's red spot, one of the planet's 69 moons, Ganymede, passed between Jupiter and the sun, casting a perfectly round shadow.

For a brief moment, the moon's shadow intersected the Great Red Spot -- adding a pupil to Jupiter's iconic storm. The Hubble Space Telescope found itself in a staring contest.

"For a moment, Jupiter 'stared' back at Hubble like a one-eyed giant Cyclops," officials at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center wrote in a caption for the newly captured image.

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Nasa's Hubble Spots Jupiter Staring Back at us Through 'Cyclops Eye'

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Jupiter's "Cyclops" eye.Nasa/ESA/A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Jupiter has been spotted "looking back" at us through a huge Cyclops eye by Nasa's Hubble Telescope.

The 10,000 mile-diameter "eye" was spotted while Hubble was monitoring changes to the planet's Great Red Spot storm that took place in April.

At this time, Jupiter's Ganymede moon moved across the storm, casting a shadow across the area, which made the Great Red Spot look like a giant eye looking back at Earth.

The eye was the result of a shadow passing over the storm(Nasa/ESA/A. Simon Goddard Space Flight Center)

"This gave the giant planet the uncanny appearance of having a pupil in the centre of a 10,000 mile-diameter 'eye'," Nasa said. "For a moment, Jupiter 'stared' back at Hubble like a one-eyed giant Cyclops."

The Great Red Spot is a persistent anticyclonic storm first discovered in 1665 by Gian Domenico Cassini.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking since the 1930s(Nasa/ESA)

Earlier this year, Nasa announced it has shrunk to its smallest size ever measured,with the spot measuring just 10,250 miles across.

Astronomers said the spot has been getting smaller since the 1930s. Amy Simon of Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre, said: "It is apparent very small eddies are feeding into the storm.We hypothesised these may be responsible for the accelerated change by altering the internal dynamics and energy of the Great Red Spot."

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NATO Secretary General visits top Allied military command – Video

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NATO Secretary General visits top Allied military command
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was briefed on operations and activities by the Alliance #39;s top military commander, General Philip Breedlove, during his first visit to NATO #39;s Supreme...

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Rangel Castro Feat Mike Moonnight & Nato Xel Ha – Vitamina C e Cama – Video

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Sant’Omero – Nato il primo donatore di sangue cordonale – Video

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Nato vs Pingi 4tos de final Fresstyle sj – Video

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NATO Secretary General speech: A unique Alliance with a clear course Q&A – Video

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NATO Secretary General speech: A unique Alliance with a clear course Q A
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivered a speech at the German Marshall Fund on Tuesday (28 October 2014) setting out three priorities to ensure the Alliance is able to address current...

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New NATO head once hurled stones at the U.S. Embassy at anti-war protest. – Video

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New NATO head once hurled stones at the U.S. Embassy at anti-war protest.
The man at the helm of the biggest military alliance in the world was reportedly opposed to war and attended rallies. Jens Stoltenberg is even said to have thrown rocks at a U.S. Embassy at...

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NATO Accuses Russian Military Aircraft of Flagrantly Violating European Airspace

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TIME World europe NATO Accuses Russian Military Aircraft of Flagrantly Violating European Airspace Military aircraft are seen on the tarmac during a visit by the new NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg of Norway at Lask Air Base, in Poland, on Oct. 6, 2014 Kacper PempelReuters The alliance claims the incursions pose a risk to civilian air traffic

NATO officials have announced that an increasingly large number of Russian military aircraft have been tracked flying unannounced into European airspace this month behavior that threatens to escalate the already taut relations between Moscow and the West.

On Wednesday, NATO claimed to have monitored at least four groups of Russian military aircraft as they conducted significant military maneuvers in European airspace over the Baltic and Black Seas as well as the Atlantic Ocean this week.

According to the alliance, multiple sets of Russian strategic bombers and tanker aircraft failed to file flight plans or engage in radio contact with civilian air-traffic-control officials during their forays into European skies. The crafts also refrained from using their onboard transponders during the exercises.

This poses a potential risk to civil aviation as civilian air traffic control cannot detect these aircraft or ensure there is no interference with civilian air traffic, read a statement released by NATO this week. These sizeable Russian flights represent an unusual level of air activity over European airspace.

In response, NATO allies scrambled their own jets to intercept and identify the Russian planes. Washington, D.C.based think tank the Atlantic Council says the alliance has conducted more than 100 intercepts of Russian aircraft this year a threefold increase in incursions since 2013.

Russias disregard for civilian procedures comes as relations with the West have hit new lows. In July, Washington accused Moscow of creating the conditions in eastern Ukraine that allowed separatist fighters to shoot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with an alleged Kremlin-supplied weapons system.

Moscow has repeatedly denied having a direct hand in the felling of the flight and in turn blamed Kiev for igniting civil war in the countrys east.

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