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Cuneiform

To keep track of dates, leading to the invention of cuneiform in 3200 BC.

The Sumerian

- Clay tokens
- Two-dimensional pictographs
- Symbols representing sounds

Developed from early tallying systmes in Mesopotamia, later used as receipts for transactions of traditing.

The king, priests, scribes, astronomers, and some women.

Group of artifacts meaning "the ploug", likely compiled in 1000 BC with later editions being made in 300 BC. Consists of many clay tablets that track astronomical data in cuneiform.

Rock carvings made by removing pat of a rock's surface. Most had religious significance or were used as maps. Can be found in every religion in the world, excluding Antarctica.

System of pictograms developed by the Ekpe Secret Society that could be found along the southeastern part of Nigeria. Before the Nigerian colonial era, there was a sacred and public version which was more decorative and used by women.

Decreased the number of Nsibidi literate people, the Transatlantic Slave Trade spreading it to Cuba and Haiti.

Recording device made from string which stored numeric information as knots.

- Collecting Data
- Monitoring tax returns
- Keeping track of calendrical information
- Organising troops

During the Spanish Colonial rule.

Found 1993 in excavations of Dispilio, Greece. Wooden tablets with inscribed markings more than 7000 years old, oldest known text in existence.

Animal bones used in Ancient China for divination. Questions were carved on the bones then heated. A diviner would just interpret the pattern of the cracks to tell the future.

Dateable one is 20,000 years old. A cylindrical stone marked with incisions.

Large scale drawings made on the ground by rearranging stones, stretching the Earth. Only visible from a distance or in the air.

Nazca Lines in Peru

Large stones carved with runes for memorials of dead men. Created in 4th century and remained strong till the 12th century.

Married Princes Charles, passed in a car accident in 1997.

Played Princess Diana in "Spencer", where Diana considers whether to escape the House of Windsor on a three-day holiday.

Played Princess Diana in "Diana: The Musical"

Played Princess Diana in "The Crown" season 4.

Actress who played Princess Diana in "The Crown" season 5.

Played Princess Diana in all the movies about Harry and Meghan.

Played Princess Diana in "Diana", which depicted Diana divorcing Prince Charles

"William & Catherine: A Royal Romance"

"Princess in Love"

"Women of Windsor"

"Diana: Her True Story"

"The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana"

Vietnamese actor famous for his portrayal of Ho Chi Minh in the 1987 play "A Sleepless Night," gaining recognition from notable figures like General Vo Nguyen Giap.

Recognised Tien Hoi's performance in the 1987 play "A Sleepless Night".

Musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda about American founding father, Alexander Hamilton. Viewed to have used colour-conscious casting to place maybe BIPOC actors into the roles of founding fathers.

Wrote the musical "Hamilton".

One of the 7 founding fathers of America.

Black, Indigenous, People Of Colour

A method of casting that does not take race or ethnicity into account.

A method of casting that looks at ethnicity and race to make an informed decision of an actor.

Black playwright who argued against colour-blind casting, claiming it promotes assimilation that black Americans have been rejecting for years.

2018 live-action that casts Jason Momoa, an actor of Hawaiin descent, in the role of someone who would normally be considered white.

Hollywood film that utlised colour-blind casting. Casted Nonso Anozie, a British-Nigerian actor into the role of a servant, and Holly Short, a white acttress into a role that's described as having dark nut-brown skin.

2013 film where Meyer Wolfsheim, a Jewish character is played by Amitabh Bachchan, an actor of Indian descent.

Played Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady". Acclaimed for her work in mimicking the voice of Thatcher.

Former prime minister of Pakistan who is jailed but was able to deliver a victory speech after elections via AI. Led the PTI, who won 98/242 showed out of the 266 seats in the National Assembly.

On an internet issue, and later the suspension of these devices was attributed to taking preventative measures to ensure foolproof security of the election.

Also former primer minister of Pakistan. Has the most backing from the military. Depiste stating that PML-N did not win, a victory speech was made.

British-Indian actor who played Gandhi in 1982.

Movie in 1982 directed by Richard Attenborough, depicting Mahatma Gandhi's story in both South Afria and India. Played by Ben Kingsley.

32nd American president who suffered from polio.

America was in a state of war and he did not want to look weak and vulnerable to foreign powers.

Designed by Lawrence Halprin in 1974. Originally designed to be more accessible. Includes a statue of him in his wheelchair in the Prologue room.

The first photograph to ever be captured. By Joseph Nicephore in 1826.

"View from the Window at Le Gras" from Joseph Nicephore.

A dark room with light entering through a small hole.

Created the better camera in 1829, photos taken with it would be known as the dagguereotype.

It was a person getting his shoe-shined in 1839.

Invented dry plate photography in 1871

Kodak camera, making it easier to produce photos with 100-exposure roll.

American photographer famous for pictures of natural landscapes.

Created the Leica, first to use 35mm film.

Made by Kodak. It is a colour reversal film that allows the capture of highly detailed imagery.

Director of Schindler's List

Follows the life of Oskar schindler, a man who saved thousands of lives through employing Jews in his factories located in Nazi Germany.

Digital artist who uses AI to restore images taken in the early 20th century. Produced "The Colours of Life," a collection of such works.

A collection of photographs made by Stuart Humphryes.

Visual historian who colourises historical photographs.

Ai that is marketed as the world's best deep learning technology co-founded by Jason Antic. Learnt to colour these images by looking at more than a million black and white images.

American scientist who developed auto-colourisation algorithms during his doctorate.

AI based tool available in Google Photos on the Google Pixel 8. Edits photos basically.

Enables users to generate new content based on a variety of inputs such as text, images, sounds, animation, 3D models, or other types of data.

AI based tool available on Samsung phones that can be used to enhance the quality of photos automatically.

A cutting-edge technology that leverages AI to improve the quality of images.

Increases the resolution of an image.

Removes noise from an image.

A category of AI neural networks specifically designed for processing images.

Involves adjusting the weights of connections between neurons in an AI network to minimise error.

A collection of images which CNN's are trained upon in order to learn a task.

The process in which a CNN learns how to perform a certain task. Typically involes dataset training and backpropagation.

The process of categorising and labelling images based on a specific set of rules.

Computer vision technique used to locate instances of objects in photos or videos.

Computer vision task in which the goal is to categorise each pixel in an image into a class or object.

A Chinese multinational technology congolomerate who made a renewal of an old Chinese opera featuring Hua Mulan.

Photograph that depicts a monochromatic image of a woman being held from behind by an older woman by Boris Eldagsen that was selected to win the Sony World Photography Awards' creative photo category.

Created the photograph "Pseudomnesia: The Electrian"

Artist from Denmark who creates living photos of historical figures using AI.

A deep-learning software that can generate human faces based on many reference and personal touches from the artist.

Well-preserved glacier mummy from the Copper age. Discovered accidentally by hikers in 1991.

Large, mass-produced houses with a critical connotation, likening them to the generic and uniform design of a fast food chain.

Collection of photos taken by Ed Ruscha in West Hollywood along Sunset Strip, taken over the course of 40 years.

Sunset Boulevard

1878 panorama captured atop the Calata tower in Constantinople by Sebah and Joaillier.

Ottoman Panorama

Collection of thousands of photographs in 1906 that were captures by Grace and William M. McCarthy before the 1906 earthquake.

Pre-1906 San Francisco

The repair of broken pottery using lacquers that do nothing to conceal the object's original fractures.

Late 15th century by Japanese craftsmen who were looking for a more aesthetically pleasing way of repairing items.

Involves repairing broken items using pieces from other vessels to create an original work of art.