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Francis Bacon

An English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of Eng...

Jack Horner (paleontologist)

An American paleontologist most famous for discovering and naming Maiasaura

James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule

An English physicist, mathematician and brewer whose work led to the discovery of the first law o...

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

An English flag officer in the Royal Navy widely regarded as one of the best Navy commanders in h...

Yuriy Kuzubov

Yuriy Kuzubov is a chess grandmaster and Ukrainian champion of 2014. He completed his final grand...

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

A British novelist, author and illustrator known for his1848 novel Vanity Fair and the 1844 novel...

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Tennyson’s rise and fall

Tennyson’s rise and fall

When Tennyson died in 1892, 11,000 people applied for tickets to his funeral in Westminster Abbey. Dr Stephanie Forward considers the poet's huge popularity in the second half of the 19th century, and the decline of his reputation in the 20th.‘Tennyson is a great poet, for reasons that are perfectly clear. He has three qualities which are seldom found together except in the greatest poets: abundance, variety, and complete competence’.The reputation of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) has fluctuated. Although he achieved great acclaim during his lifetime, there were always detra...

An earthly paradise in Norwich

An earthly paradise in Norwich

The Norfolk-based writer, physician and antiquary, Sir Thomas Browne (1605–82), deserves to be much better remembered and not only for his many contributions to the vocabulary of science – “electricity”, “medical”, “deductive”, “anomalous” and “coma”, among them. When John Evelyn visited Browne in 1671 at his home in Norwich opposite the church of St Peter Mancroft, he found Browne’s house and garden, “a Paradise & Cabinet of rarities, & that of the best collection, especially Medails, books, Plants, natural things”. Evelyn noticed, “amongst other curiosities, a collection of the Eggs of all the foule & birds he could procure . . . as Cranes, Storkes, Eagles . . . & variety of waterfoule”. In collaboration with researchers at Queen Mary University working on The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne for Oxford University Press, curators at the Royal College of Physicians have resurrected Browne and his enthusiasms in a small but exquisitely constructed exhibition. Visiting it is as close as anyone can get today to the paradise Evelyn encountered....

Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique?

Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique?

Since the end of the first century A.D., people have been playing a game with a certain book. In this game, you open the book to a random spot and place your finger on the text; the passage you select will, it is thought, predict your future. If this sounds silly, the results suggest otherwise. The first person known to have played the game was a highborn Roman who was fretting about whether he’d be chosen to follow his cousin, the emperor Trajan, on the throne; after opening the book to this passage—I recognize that he is that king of Rome,Gray headed, gray bearded, ...

Tawakkol Karman: “Non-violence is the common denominator of all my actions”

Tawakkol Karman: “Non-violence is the common denominator of all my actions”

What does non-violence mean to you? And what is the likely impact of non-violent civil resistance in countries experiencing complex conflicts?Political violence is the recourse to force to achieve political or religious objectives and to change the beliefs, opinions or behaviour of people in the public sphere. There is another type of political violence − that is certainly hard to condemn, but which I do not recommend – it is the use of force as a means of resistance to an occupier.I am convinced that non-violence is the most effective way to combat...

Tennyson’s rise and fall

An earthly paradise in Norwich

Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique?

Tawakkol Karman: “Non-violence is the common denominator of all my actions”

Ernest Walton

John Sulston (1942–2018)

Biology

John Sulston (1942–2018)

The principle that genomic data should be universally shared without commercial involvement owes its widespread acceptance largely to John Sulston. As leader of the British contribution to the international Human Genome Project, Sulston persuaded funders and colleagues of the crucial importance o...

A Brief Biography of Albert Einstein

Biography Physics

A Brief Biography of Albert Einstein

A brief about the the most brilliant & influential scientists of all time

Does Essence Precede Existence? A Look at Camus's Metaphysical Rebellion

philosophy

Does Essence Precede Existence? A Look at Camus's Metaphysical Rebellion

Existentialism is a curious philosophy for many reasons; it is considered by some to not even be philosophy, but rather a social movement. Despite this, it is probably the philosophy that has had the greatest impact and influence outside of philosophical circles. While existentialism as philosoph...