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Hans Christian Andersen

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Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher cultural critic, poet, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influ...

Samuel Sevian

Samuel Sevian born December is an American chess prodigy. He earned the title of Grandmaster at t...

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who is widely considered one of the greatest minds and p...

Yang Chen-Ning

A Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, inte...

James Hutton

A Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician.

Ivan Turgenev

A Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian l...

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Nietzsche and the Cynics

Nietzsche and the Cynics

Ancient Cynicism was an eccentric model for practising a philosophical life. Diogenes of Sinope (c404-323 BCE) and his followers claimed independence from conventional material desires and the normal turmoil of emotional life. They were notoriously without shame – pissing and satisfying their sexual needs in public, like the dogs (kynes) from which their name partly derived.Diogenes himself was said to have slept in a tub or a shack in the Athenian marketplace. Seeing a youth scoop up water in the hollow of his hand, he threw away the wooden cup he had been using, pleased to see that...

Who Is Tartaglia Really? - Introduction

Who Is Tartaglia Really? - Introduction

The discovery of the algebraic solution of cubic equations in the 16th century is connected with three Italian mathematicians: Scipione dal Ferro (1465-1526), Nicolo Tartaglia (1499/1500-1557), and Hieronimo Cardano (1501-1576). (Pronunciation: Sci- is pronounced like she, -gl- in Tartaglia -ly-.)The Bolognese university professor Scipione dal Ferro found the solution of the cubic equations without the quadratic term (modern) x³ + px = q, and x³ = px + q according to one source about 1505 and according to another around 1515, but he did not publish it. He guarded it in his close...

Paul Allen’s Legacy of Extraordinary Homes

Paul Allen’s Legacy of Extraordinary Homes

When Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died in October at age 65, he left a cache of real-estate treasures, from a 4,000-acre Idaho retreat with meadows, trees, forestland and views of the Tetons, to a penthouse in a coveted Manhattan building, to hundreds of acres on a peninsula in the San Juan Islands, replete with custom-designed homes, huge gyms and swimming pools, libraries and music studios.While geographically diverse, these properties share common elements. They aren’t by any means on the wrong side of town, but they also aren’t typically in a hot spot. For example, rather than...

ULYSSES S. GRANT: LIFE IN BRIEF

ULYSSES S. GRANT: LIFE IN BRIEF

millercenter.org

Ulysses S. Grant is best known as the Union general who led the United States to victory over the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. As a two-term President, he is typically dismissed as weak and ineffective; historians have often ranked Grant's presidency near the bottom in American history. Recently, however, scholars have begun to reexamine and reassess his presidential tenure; recent rankings have reflected a significant rise. Every President presents historians with some contradictions, but Grant might do so more than most. He was quiet and soft-spoken but abl...

Nietzsche and the Cynics

Who Is Tartaglia Really? - Introduction

Paul Allen’s Legacy of Extraordinary Homes

ULYSSES S. GRANT: LIFE IN BRIEF

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Struggling and Searching? Lessons from Leo Tolstoy

literature

Struggling and Searching? Lessons from Leo Tolstoy

Perhaps you’ve experienced this “painful feeling” of losing your faith, of seeking meaning in life and not knowing where to turn. Even if you haven’t, it’s likely you’ve known someone who has. The great novelist Leo Tostoy had his own spiritual crisis, vividly recounted in his spiritual autobiogr...

The Agitator

Politics

The climactic moment of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society’s Independence Day picnic—a somber affair held that year at Harmony Grove, just outside Boston—Garrison’s public immolation of the all-but-sacred law of the land dramatized an argument that he had been making in speeches and in the pa...

Reinventing the wheel

Art

Reinventing the wheel

The object in Tate Modern is white and shiny, cast in porcelain, its slender upper part curving outward as it descends to a receiving bowl - into which I urinate. It's just a brief walk from here in the fifth-floor men's loo to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, an object sealed in a plastic display case...