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Alison Frantz (1903–1995) was an archaeological photographer and Byzantine scholar. She worked at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens's Agora excavations and became its official photographer. Her photographs of the Linear B tablets were used for their first transcription and the decipherment of Linear B. She also restored the Church of the Holy Apostles. During the Second World War, Frantz joined the Office of Strategic Services and gathered intelligence on European exiles in the United States. She served on an Allied commission to observe the Greek elections of 1946 and was the US embassy in Athens's cultural attaché. Her publications included archaeological research into Ottoman Greece and photography of archaic kore sculptures, Byzantine architecture, and artifacts from the Aegean Bronze Age. Her work on late antiquity and later periods is considered pioneering and raised the scholarly standing of post-classical archaeology in Greece. (Full article...)
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Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), dubbed Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born cook who lived in the US and is believed to have infected up to 57 people with the bacteria that cause typhoid fever, with three confirmed deaths. Between 1897 and 1907, Mallon worked at several homes; residents at four of them contracted typhoid. In 1907, she was forcibly quarantined at Riverside Hospital, but was freed in 1910, promising not to work as a cook. A further outbreak at the Sloane Maternity Hospital, where she was working, resulted in 25 cases and two deaths in early 1915. She was again confined, remaining so until her death in 1938. Her nickname became a term for anyone who spreads disease. Mallon's case raises questions about the balance between individual liberty and public health. No other carrier of typhoid was confined for as long as she was. Her story has been reevaluated, particularly during outbreaks of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and COVID-19. (Full article...)
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Persona, previously marketed as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona outside Japan, is a video game franchise primarily developed by Atlus and owned by Sega. Centered around a series of Japanese role-playing video games, Persona is a spin-off from Atlus's Megami Tensei franchise. The first entry in the series, Revelations: Persona, was released in 1996 for the PlayStation. The series has seen several more games since, with the most recent main entry being Persona 3 Reload (2024). Persona began as a spin-off based on the positively-received high school setting of Shin Megami Tensei If... (1994). The series's core features include a group of students as the main cast, a silent protagonist similar to the mainline Megami Tensei franchise, and combat using Personas. Beginning with Persona 3 in 2006, the main series came to focus more on, and become renowned for, the immersive social-simulation elements that came with the addition of Social Links, which are directly linked to how Personas evolve. (Full article...)