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But in the early 1990s, a local high school teacher, Fred Isseks, inspired his students to take video cameras out into the field and investigate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
That strange feature inspired Schrödinger's famous thought experiment involving a cat that is both alive and dead until it is observed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
And now we have arrived at Alison Roman selling “A Very Good Sauce,” including a jar inspired by the caramelized-shallot-and-anchovy pasta that once briefly seemed to occupy half the internet.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Many of these ancillary items, strategically placed among approximately 140 Van Herpen designs, have inspired the couturier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Evidently it was the natural formation of the terrain that inspired this extraordinary work of landscape architecture, as mysterious and moving in its way as Stonehenge.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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