Kwan Man-ching

• ... that Kwan Man-ching (pictured), who directed more than fifty films in forty years, entered the industry hoping to meet his celebrity crush?
• ... that the style of Hermann Weyl's Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik has been likened to "a smiling figure on horseback, cutting a clean way through ... with a swift bright sword"?
• ... that international adult figure skating champion Naz Arıcı learned to skate at the age of 29?
• ... that in 1967 two mathematicians published PhD dissertations independently disproving the same thirteen-year-old conjecture?
• ... that Shalom Nagar, executioner of war criminal and Nazi Party official Adolf Eichmann, said he was selected at random for the role?
• ... that Kevin Roose wrote a viral article about artificial intelligence rhetoric after an AI bot attempted to convince him to leave his wife?
• ... that Karl Thielscher began refereeing American football games less than a month after retiring from playing the sport professionally?
• ... that between February and August 1918 the Petergofsky District mobilized more than 20 combat units for the Red Army?
• ... that a South Korean actor sold his belongings and went $7 million into debt to keep his amusement park running?

George E. Mylonas (1898–1988) was a Greek archaeologist of ancient Greece and of Aegean prehistory. He excavated widely, particularly at Olynthus, Eleusis and Mycenae, where he made the first archaeological study and publication of Grave Circle B, the earliest known monumentalized burials at the site. Mylonas was born in Smyrna, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and received an elite education. In 1924, he began working for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He took part in excavations at Corinth, Nemea and Olynthus under its auspices. He studied and taught at universities in Greece and the United States. He was prominent in the Archaeological Society of Athens and in efforts to conserve the monuments of the Acropolis of Athens. He had co-responsibility for the excavation of Mycenae's Grave Circle B in the early 1950s, and from 1957 until 1985 he excavated on the citadel of the site. His excavations at Mycenae have been credited with bringing coherence to the site. (Full article...)