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The Crusades

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  The Crusades The Crusades were several closely tied wars that were commenced, supported, and even sometimes participated and directed by the Latin Church during the medieval times. The best known Crusades nowadays happened between 1095 and 1291 CE. They were trying to reclaim the Holy Land, or Constantinople and Jerusalem and the surrounding areas from its Arabian Islamic capturers, who also considered it to be their holy land. This event led to the First Crusade, in which the Holy Roman Empire fought and recovered the Holy Land, and soon after, dozens of Crusades were fought, which acted as one of the biggest centers of attention for multiple centuries in Europe. In 1095, Pope Urban the 2nd announced the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont, a gathering held by the former. He encouraged and showed military support for the Byzantine Empire and its emperor Alexios the 1st against the Seljuk Turks. They later declared for an armed pilgrimage to the Holy Land against the Islamic. Th

ChatGPT

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  ChatGPT ChatGPT stands for Chat Generated Pre-trained Transformer. It is a software called a chatbot capable of making conversations with people made by the artificial intelligence research laboratory OpenAI. It is built based on the GPT-3 family of language models. ChatGPT is fine tuned as an approach to transfer learning. Being such a prestigious AI, it has both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. ChatGPT was introduced to the public as a prototype on November 30th, 2022, and unsurprisingly, accumulated lots of attention for its elaborate and communicative answers throughout several different categories of information. However, its factual accuracy kept changing at different times. This inefficiency was seen as a consequential disadvantage of the AI. Still, by the time ChatGPT had been released, OpenAI’s value had doubled to 29 billion dollars in USD. ChatGPT has been trained using supervised and reinforced learning. Both of the methods required human trainers to help

Amelia Earhart

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Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and writer. She was born on July 24, 1897 and disappeared on July 2, 1937, and was declared dead on January 5, 1939. She was the first female pilot to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean . She also made several other records, such as being one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, being the second person overall to fly solo across the Atlantic, and the first person to fly solo from Mexico City to Newark, along with many others. Earhart wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was of great importance in the formation of The Ninety-Nines , an organization for female pilots.  Amelia Earhart was born and raised in Atchison, Kansas, and later raised in Des Moines, Iowa. Earhart developed a passion for adventure at a young age, and started acquiring flying experience during her twenties. In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane, accompanying the