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Abraham Lincoln

American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 to ...

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

13th century Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Emperor

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

Was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Yaakov Ziv

The father of modern files compression. Developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algo...

Thomas Digges

An English mathematician and astronomer who was the first to expound the Copernican system in Eng...

Jeremy Bentham

An English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarian...

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Carolus Linnaeus: Founder of Modern Taxonomy

Carolus Linnaeus: Founder of Modern Taxonomy

Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), Swedish botanist and zoologist, laid the foundations for the biological binomial nomenclature system still used today. As the father of modern taxonomy and ecology, he is known as the “most famous botanist of all time.”2He was also “a creationist and thus an enemy of evolution.” Dr. Henry Morris wrote:[Linnaeus] was a man of great piety and respect for the Scriptures. One of his main goals in systematizing the tremendous varieties of living creatures was to attempt to delineate the original Genesis “kinds.” He…[believed] that variation could occur within...

How Edgar Allan Poe Became Our Era’s Premier Storyteller

How Edgar Allan Poe Became Our Era’s Premier Storyteller

smithsonianmag.com

Elisabeth Becker went all the way from Wisconsin to Philadelphia last July to introduce her two young children to America’s sacred text—not the Declaration of Independence, but Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” She walked the kids into one of the most important shrines of the Poe cult, a dark and dreary hallway in the Central Library, and sat them in front of a glass case holding Grip, the raven believed to have inspired Poe’s great poem, published in 1845. Becker, sitting on the floor with her charges, read aloud from a pop-up book of “The Raven.” Then she posted the photos on Facebook, where...

François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Dialogues faits à l’imitation des Anciens

François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Dialogues faits à l’imitation des Anciens

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Tornato all’attenzione della critica soltanto con il rinnovamento delle ricerche sul libertinaggio, La Mothe Le Vayer si rivela, con la riscoperta dei suoi scritti filosofici, personaggio di grande interesse nella costellazione libertina. I dieci dialoghi qui riproposti in edizione critica, con ortografia modernizzata, permettono di misurare come egli utilizzi la strategia citazionale, andando ben oltre il semplice sfoggio di erudizione: l’adozione del burlesco, del sottinteso, dell’ironia e della distanziazione, gli consentono di elaborare una scrittura ludica e...

The Brilliant, Troubled Legacy of Richard Wagner

The Brilliant, Troubled Legacy of Richard Wagner

smithsonianmag.com

She is Richard Wagner’s great-granddaughter, and her life has been dominated by the light and shade of his genius. But as a teenager growing up in Bavaria in the 1950s and ’60s, Eva Wagner-Pasquier went googly-eyed for an altogether different musical icon: Elvis Presley. She remembers the excitement he stirred up more than half a century ago merely by passing through a neighboring town on maneuvers with the U.S. Army. So last year, joined by her American-born son Antoine, Eva finally trekked off to Graceland to pay homage to the King. “I’ve always wanted to go there,” she said, flipping ope...

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Don't Forget That Martin Luther King Jr. Was Once Denounced as an Extremist

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Don't Forget That Martin Luther King Jr. Was Once Denounced as an Extremist

As Monday’s observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches, King’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington is sure to be celebrated and replayed across the U.S. In today’s popular imagination, the March on Washington stands as one of the most American events of the 20th century—th...

Dismantle All of This Stuff: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky

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Dismantle All of This Stuff: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky

NOAM CHOMSKY IS INDISPENSABLE. Just as it is impossible to imagine appreciating the dramatic arts without learning Shakespeare, or loving jazz trumpet without an appreciation of Louis Armstrong, it is inconceivable that one might study contemporary political thought without reading Chomsky....

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Can Ashton Eaton Save the Decathlon?

Ten years ago, Tate Metcalf, a high-school track coach in Bend, Oregon, was trying to find a college that would give one of his athletes a scholarship. Ashton Eaton was a talented sprinter with a fierce long jump, but Metcalf received mostly lukewarm responses. His coach felt that Eaton would hav...