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Tell me more about Rhiannon Giddens. Giddens, who is breaking Beyoncé’s internet as Banjo Auntie, is known in other circles as a folk polymath often interested in projects spanning Black music history.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
The wandering nerve was apparent to the first anatomists, notably Galen, the Greek polymath who lived until around the year 216.
—R. Douglas Fields, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
Marci sent the manuscript to Kircher in Rome in 1665, hoping that the Jesuit scholar and polymath would be able to decipher it.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2024
Today, he might be called a polymath or a Renaissance man.
—Harriet Quick, theweek, 17 July 2024
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
The wandering nerve was apparent to the first anatomists, notably Galen, the Greek polymath who lived until around the year 216.
—R. Douglas Fields, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
Marci sent the manuscript to Kircher in Rome in 1665, hoping that the Jesuit scholar and polymath would be able to decipher it.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2024
Today, he might be called a polymath or a Renaissance man.
—Harriet Quick, theweek, 17 July 2024
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“Polymath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polymath. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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