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Mary Anning

An English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for fi...

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

A French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. She is revered in France as one of the gr...

Robert Fulton

An American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commer...

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte

Military & statesman genius. The First Emperor of the French people

Theodor Schwann

Theodor Schwann

A German physician and physiologist who extended the cell theory to animals.

Jonathan Swift

An Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer best-known for his book Gulliver's Travels,

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

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

inquiriesjournal.com

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 philosophy can be debated, most scholars agree that existentialism is certainly not a systematic type of analytic philosophy in the usual sense (Academy of Ideas, n. pag., Marino ix, Cooper 27). Despite the fact that there is great disagreement about the nature of existentialism some of the most famous philo...

The Murder of August von Kotzebue and the Supression of the Liberal Press

The Murder of August von Kotzebue and the Supression of the Liberal Press

On May 3, 1761, German dramatist and writer August von Kotzebue was born. In 1817, one of Kotzebue‘s books was burned during the Wartburg festival. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften, which gave Metternich the pretext to issue the Carlsbad Decrees, which dissolved the Burschenschaften, cracked down on the liberal press, and seriously restricted academic freedom in the states of the German Confederation. As long as if you are not familiar with German history of the early 19th century, you might have never heard of August von Kotzebue, which...

The Brontës’ Secret

The Brontës’ Secret

theatlantic.com

No body of writing has engendered more other bodies of writing than the Bible, but the Brontë corpus comes alarmingly close. “Since 1857, when Elizabeth Gaskell published her famous Life of Charlotte Brontë, hardly a year has gone by without some form of biographical material on the Brontës appearing—from articles in newspapers to full-length lives, from images on tea towels to plays, films, and novelizations,” wrote Lucasta Miller in The Brontë Myth, her 2001 history of Brontëmania. This year the Brontë literary-industrial complex celebrates the bicentennial of Charlotte’s birt...

Theatres of Opposition: Empire, Revolution and Richard Brinsley Sheridan by David Francis Taylor

Theatres of Opposition: Empire, Revolution and Richard Brinsley Sheridan by David Francis Taylor

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in his triple and intersecting capacities as parliamentarian, playwright and theatre manager, is the charismatic subject of Theatres of Opposition – a study of the “complex overlap of theatrical and parliamentary-political cultures towards the end of the eighteenth century” (2). Driven by the revisionist aim to recover “the simultaneity and interconnectedness of theatrical practice and political action” (6), Taylor’s methodology is impressively interdisciplinary, drawing upon literary, political, theatrical and art histories.The book opens with Sheridan’s r...

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

The Murder of August von Kotzebue and the Supression of the Liberal Press

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Theatres of Opposition: Empire, Revolution and Richard Brinsley Sheridan by David Francis Taylor

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The “split brain” and Roger Wolcott Sperry

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The “split brain” and Roger Wolcott Sperry

The concepts of cerebral localization were established in the early 19th century. From these arose the idea that the dominant (usually left) hemisphere mainly subserved functions of cognition and language. The “relatively retarded right hemisphere” by contrast was mute, agraphic, apraxic, and lac...

Winston Churchill: Hero or villain?

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Winston Churchill: Hero or villain?

A statue of Winston Churchill was sprayed with graffiti during recent protests in London, with claims that the former prime minister was racist.Government ministers condemned the "vandalism and desecration" of the statue.But Britain’s wartime leader split opinion in his own lifetime...

The Bobby Fischer Defense

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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 des...