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History of motion pictures dates back to the second part of the 19th century with photographers like Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, who, among others, were the first to take several images per second in one effort—all for scientific purposes back then—to study the locomotion of birds, animals, and humans. For example, Muybridge was the first to take a series of photographs of a galloping horse in order to prove that in one single instant of time all four horse legs are not touching the ground. More or less at the same time on another continent, Marey created a shotgun-shaped camera capable with one trigger pull to capture 12 images in a row within one single second and store them all on the single 90mm film. He used his gun to study various motions of animals, fish, and insects within his so-called 'animated zoo', including dropping cats from different heights and filming them always landing on their feet. ELMO Super 106, 8mm movie camera It was not long af...

Languages always change when we change. Evolutionary speaking and over a long period of time. Especially when we mix with others or change environments and move to different places. English is a perfect example—perhaps it is the only language spoken with that many variations created from country to country, all over the world, from New Zealand throughout India toward Canada and even in those places on Earth where it is not language number one. Believe it or not, there are thousands of spoken languages throughout our planet today, and with people migrating over eons, mixing multiple languages into new ones is well recorded in our history. New languages created in that fashion are well known as creoles, most of them connected to the recent colonialism when two cultures or more collided for a longer period of time. Perhaps the most known of them all (and spoken by most of their population) are Haitian, Jamaican, and Hawaiian creoles—a mixture of French (Haiti) and English (Jamaica and H...