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The National Gallery of Art's online Winslow Homer exhibit has 35 images from the more than 50 that were on display at the National Gallery in 2005. The images are gorgeous and crisp, and the multimedia components give the exhibit depth. Visitors unfamiliar with Homer's early life and career as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly and an artist-correspondent during the Civil War, should watch the short video in the "Highlights" link. Visitors interested in seeing the progression of Homer's work must check out the "Chronology" link, which not only has a timeline of his life, but also has 36 thumbnails of his work, illustrations, and paintings, in chronological order from 1862-1909. The full-size images can be viewed in a slideshow if visitors click on any of the thumbnails. The text below each of the images explains his departure from oil painting in his earlier days to painting in watercolor, for which he became most famous. Visitors will also note the different focus his paintings of New England have when compared to those in Florida and the Caribbean.

The tag line of this website is "Everything you Need to Plan your Civil War Trips." With the 150th anniversary of the Civil War being commemorated this year, this website offers everything for the mildly interested to the downright enthusiastic. Visitors can find every kind of map here, including "Civil War Trails Maps," almost two dozen "Podcast Tour Maps," "Interactive Maps," "National Park Service Maps," and relevant "State Highway Maps." The "Multimedia" link on the site gives visitors access to 26 podcasts of tours of Civil War sites. The podcasts are narrated by noted national park service historians and accompanied by period music. Also in the Multimedia area are the "Richmond Walking Tours" in Richmond, VA, which was the capitol of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. These include five tours, maps for each, and an hour-long podcast to accompany each tour. Visitors interested in going to some Civil War lectures, reenactments, tours, or demonstrations should definitely check out the "Events" link to see a list of all the Civil War events for the 150th anniversary, month by month. The month of April alone has over 100 on the calendar throughout the South.

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"In the race to build computers that can think like humans, the proving ground is the Turing Test-an annual battle between the world's most advanced artificial-intelligence programs and ordinary people. The objective? To find out whether a computer can act "more human" than a person. In his own quest to beat the machines, the author discovers that the march of technology isn't just changing how we live, it's raising new questions about what it means to be human. By Brian Christian"

"Two physicists convey the enigmas of the quantum world in clear and compelling prose"