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Harold Urey

An American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chem...

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English philosopher and Anglican cleric. He is considered the major British figure in philosophy ...

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American poet, novelist and short-story writer known for her books The Colossus and Other Poems (...

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Charles Lyell

A Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining Earth's his...

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An American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his ...

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The Life of Alexandre Dumas, Classic Adventure Writer

The Life of Alexandre Dumas, Classic Adventure Writer

Born in France in 1802, Dumas was the son of famed general Thomas-Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie and the grandson of Marie Césette Dumas, an enslaved woman of African descent. His last name, Dumas, was adopted from his grandmother. Although the family enjoyed some rank and connection due to General Dumas’ lineage and fame, they were not at all wealthy, and their situation worsened in 1806, when General Dumas died of cancer. Without much money for an education, Dumas managed to educate himself and take advantage of family connections. When the French monarchy was restored ...

Francisco Suárez and the Complexities of Modernity

Francisco Suárez and the Complexities of Modernity

This article about Francisco Suárez in the context of modernity2 is set in a broader context of research we are developing on the “Ignatian cultural framework” in general and specifically on Suárez’s work.3 In this context, the article analyzes Francisco Suárez’s thinking in two contexts, both with respect to his own era and subsequent influence as well as to our own era, and it links to a hermeneutic and practical will that can be discerned in the symposium title Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity, as I clarify in this article. This author i...

Clarence Darrow Finally Returns to Dayton

Clarence Darrow Finally Returns to Dayton

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When Clarence Darrow came to Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 to help defend John Scopes in the famous “Monkey Trial,” he was greeted by religious signs, a religious town, religious prosecutors, and a religious judge. Darrow lost the case. In 1927, Scopes' conviction was overturned, but his trial in Dayton became legendary.When Darrow and his family returned to Dayton in 1928, their visit made few headlines. Unlike what happened three years earlier, there were no shouting protesters, street-corner evangelists, or crowds of gawkers in the streets. Instead, Darrow was warmly received by several of his friends, who honored him at a dinner at the Aqua Hotel. After that visit, Darrow never again returned to Dayton—until now.In ensuing years, the spectacle of the Scopes Trial faded from the public's conscience. Despite revivals of interest produced by Inherit the Wind and flare-ups of the evolution-creationism controversy, many of Dayton's residents tired of hearing about the famous trial; as Rhea County Historian Pat Guffey told me, “Although much has been written about the Scopes Trial, many natives of Dayton, Tennessee—myself included—are weary of reading the same stories, ...

Quakers: The faith forgotten in its hometown

Quakers: The faith forgotten in its hometown

It was the faith of two US presidents and several prominent UK industrialists, yet the origins of the Quaker religion are little known today by people living in the English town where it began. However, a new heritage trail targeting the American tourist market is aiming to change that.In 1647, George Fox, a cobbler, was walking past a church in the East Midlands when he received what he described as a message from God.The son of a Leicestershire churchwarden, he had spent years wandering around an England torn apart by civil war and increasingly disaffected with the established church....

The Life of Alexandre Dumas, Classic Adventure Writer

Francisco Suárez and the Complexities of Modernity

Clarence Darrow Finally Returns to Dayton

Quakers: The faith forgotten in its hometown

Jacob Bernoulli

Joseph Lister and the performance of antiseptic surgery

Medicine

Joseph Lister and the performance of antiseptic surgery

This article highlights a neglected feature of Joseph Lister's work, namely how, in addition to promoting germ theories and the principles of the antiseptic system, he also devoted much time and effort to communicating the performative aspects of antisepsis and of the many other surgical innovati...

Francoise D’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon – Secret Wife of Louis XIV

Politics

Francoise D’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon – Secret Wife of Louis XIV

When it comes to royalty and nobility, France has a long history of noblemen and women who each have led incredible lives that still pique the interests of history buffs to this very day.Francoise D’Aubigne, for example, formerly a French noblewoman who, incredibly secretly married King Lo...

The Boy Who Played With Fusion

Physics

The Boy Who Played With Fusion

“Propulsion,” the nine-year-old says as he leads his dad through the gates of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “I just want to see the propulsion stuff.”A young woman guides their group toward a full-scale replica of the massive Saturn V rocket that brought America ...