Als Bruitismus, vom französischen bruit (deutsch: Lärm, Geräusch), im Italienischen Rumorismo genannt, wird die Stilrichtung der Musik bezeichnet, die innerhalb des italienischen Futurismus nach 1909 geprägt wurde. Der Bruitismus war die provokative Antwort der musikalischen Avantgarde auf die als zu sanft, ätherisch und immateriell aufgefasste Musik des Impressionismus. Hauptvertreter dieses Stils, der bis heute in der Neuen Musik in Teilen nachwirkt und präsent ist, waren Francesco Balilla Pratella und Luigi Russolo. == Geschichte == Versuche, Geräusche effektvoll in Kompositionen einzuarbeiten…

The Limits to Growth (LTG) is a 1972 report on the computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources., commissioned by the Club of Rome, the findings of the study were first presented at international gatherings in Moscow and Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 1971. The report's authors are Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III, representing a team of 17 researchers.Since its publication, some 30 million copies of the book in 30 languages have been purchased. It continues to generate debate and has been the...

The Statue of Lenin, Seattle, is a 16 ft (5 m) bronze statue of Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, by Bulgarian sculptor Emil Venkov. It was completed and put on display in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1988, the year before the Velvet Revolution of 1989. In 1993 the statue was bought by an American who had found it lying in a scrapyard. He brought it home to Washington state, but died before he could carry out his plans for displaying the Soviet era memento. Since 1995 the statue has been held in trust waiting for a buyer, standing on temporary display for the last 25 years on a...