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Colin Carlson

A former child prodigy who won the Harry S. Truman Scholarship at 14, making national headlines.

Karl Marx

A German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socia...

Joseph Justus Scaliger

Joseph Justus Scaliger

A French Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical hist...

Boethius

A Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher of the early 6th century.

Jacques Necker

A Genevan banker who served as finance minister for Louis XVI and a statesman

John Forbes Nash Jr.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

An American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometr...

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Wallenstein: The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

Wallenstein: The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

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One of the greatest generals of the Thirty Years War was Albrecht von Wallenstein. His fame as a military strategist and financial genius is matched only by his popular reputation as an extraordinarily ambitious, greedy, self-serving, arrogant, harsh and unscrupulous man, unmoved by true religious motivations and guided by astrological observations. In this work, Geoff Mortimer attempts to refute almost all such received wisdoms about Wallenstein, reserving only the most favourable.The military historian B.H. Liddell Hart credited Friedrich Schiller with making Wallenstein famous as ...

The Bobby Fischer Defense

The Bobby Fischer Defense

It would be impossible for me to write dispassionately about Bobby Fischer even if I were to try. I was born the year he achieved a perfect score at the US Championship in 1963, eleven wins with no losses or draws. He was only twenty at that point but it had been obvious for years that he was destined to become a legendary figure. His book My 60 Memorable Games was one of my earliest and most treasured chess possessions. When Fischer took the world championship crown from my countryman Boris Spassky in 1972 I was already a strong club player following every move as it came in from Reykjavík...

Joseph Henry's role in the discovery of electromagnetic induction

Joseph Henry's role in the discovery of electromagnetic induction

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The discovery of electromagnetic induction in the early part of the 19th century is one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time, and it has had tremendous technological consequences. The credit for this discovery rightfully goes to the great English experimental physicist Michael Faraday. However, the American physicist Joseph Henry made some observations comparable to Faraday's at nearly the same time, and for that reason, Faraday and Henry are often considered to be co-discoverers of some aspects of electromagnetic induction. We examine Henry's early research on el...

The impact of Robert G. Ingersoll in Macomb

The impact of Robert G. Ingersoll in Macomb

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The most controversial figure ever to speak in Macomb was Robert G. Ingersoll, the famous freethinker, who lectured at the Opera House in the spring of 1896. A brilliant orator, he had criticized orthodox religion in lectures across the country, drawing huge crowds but also igniting the opposition of Christian leaders.An admired Civil War colonel and a talented lawyer, who was also the Illinois attorney general after the war, Ingersoll began criticizing religious orthodoxy in 1872 with a lecture titled “The Gods.” Controversial from the start, he asserted that all gods, in all cultur...

Wallenstein: The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

The Bobby Fischer Defense

Joseph Henry's role in the discovery of electromagnetic induction

The impact of Robert G. Ingersoll in Macomb

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Laozi Studies in the Twenty-First Century

philosophy

Laozi Studies in the Twenty-First Century

The Laozi or Daodejing has been for at least two thousand years an object of keen interest in China. This interest has been stirred by some recent discoveries. Two silk manuscripts from an Early Han tomb were excavated in the 1970s, and three pre-Han portions of the text on bamboo slips were foun...

The talent of Lili Boulanger

Music

The talent of Lili Boulanger

A hundred years ago, on 25 March 1918, as German shells rained down on Paris, Claude Debussy died of cancer. He was fifty-five. By today’s standards, it was a life cut short, yet during the twenty-five years of his mature career, he changed music in ways that are arguably still not widely underst...

Top 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Thomas Alva Edison

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Top 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Thomas Alva Edison

This week on Energy.gov, we’re revisiting the storied rivalry between two of history’s most important energy-related inventors and engineers: Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. Check back each day to learn more about their lives, their inventions and how their contributions are still ...