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23 SEP 2026

Day 266

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir · The Second Sex
No image accompanies the supplied record, so visible composition, figures, lettering and condition cannot be described reliably in this lesson.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Triumphal Arch

German Renaissance · 1512 · Laid paper

A monumental print on laid paper brings four named makers into one object, while its title borrows the language of permanent architecture.

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A diagram showing the atomic structure of carbon, with six protons and six neutrons in the nucleus and six electrons in two shells, four of them in the outer shell available for bonding.

II · THE DISCOVERY · HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Carbon

Antoine Lavoisier · 1789 · coal

Carbon forms chains, rings, and branching structures in extraordinary variety. Antoine Lavoisier named it in 1789, but people had been burning it, drawing with it, and wearing it for millennia.

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An outdoor stainless-steel sculpture standing on a university campus, open to daylight and weather.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Norra skenet

Ernst Nordin · 1969 · Stainless steel

In 1969 Ernst Nordin set a stainless-steel sculpture on the Umeå University campus. Called Norra skenet, it belongs to the open air rather than a gallery wall.

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Black-and-white photograph of a baseball player in a pinstriped uniform and cap, holding a bat across his shoulders with both hands, standing on a field with empty stadium seating visible behind him.

IV · THE GAME · MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Lou Gehrig

First Base · 15 June 1923 · New York Yankees

He played two thousand one hundred and sixty-four games across seventeen seasons. The last eight came in 1939, when the numbers fell away in a way the preceding sixteen years had not prepared anyone for.

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