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Lise Meitner

A leading Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the el...

Benjamin Constant

A Swiss-French political activist and writer on political theory and religion.

Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus

A genius historian from ancient Greece known for his universal history work Bibliotheca Historica.

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Dalumuzi Mhlanga

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Edmund Burke

An Irish statesman and philosopher who supported the rights of the British colonists to resist me...

Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller

A Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet who is often r...

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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 response to the American War of Independence, offering readings of The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Critic and the less familiar afterpieces St Patrick’s Day and The Camp as dramas that emblematise Sheridan’s “campaign for an actively critical political public” (32), at once alert and resistant to the government’s print propaganda war. A careful analysis of the politically pointed style of The Englishman (jointly edited by Sheridan and Charles James Fox between March-June 1779) makes for especially compelling reading. Responding to The Critic as a play that satirises both the eighteenth-...

Joseph Lister: father of modern surgery

Joseph Lister: father of modern surgery

Joseph Lister: father of modern surgery

On the centenary of Joseph Lister’s death, it is appropriate to remember and honour his remarkable accomplishments that earned him the title “father of modern surgery.”Conferences to commemorate “the greatest surgical benefactor to mankind”1 were held this year at King’s College in London, England, and at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, where speakers covered a wide range of relevant topics, including history, current research in surgical infection and health policy in Great Britain. Many of the presentations included quotes by or about Lister from his era, and those quot...

The Wonderful World of Opera Dogs: Giuseppe Verdi’s Hunting Companion & Pampered Pet

The Wonderful World of Opera Dogs: Giuseppe Verdi’s Hunting Companion & Pampered Pet

OperaWire is proud to present “The Wonderful World of Opera Dogs,” a series by Diana Burgwyn, which will focus on the relationship between opera’s most iconic stars and their beloved canines. The creation of this series and all research necessary for each individual piece were conducted solely by Diana. To learn more about the origins of the project, click here. The dog Blach had a privileged life. He feasted on macaroons, slept anywhere he wanted in the big villa, was provided the biggest bones, and had his own secretaries, male and female. We know this because Blach (also known as Black), a tall, lean, and powerful hunting dog, described his privileged life in a letter that he wrote to his canine friend Ron-Ron. In the letter, he mentioned one of the secretaries, who served as his major-domo secretary factotum. That individual had the strange habit, wrote Blach, of scribbling little hooks on paper....

The Fall of Nate Silver

The Fall of Nate Silver

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Did he change, or did we? For weeks now, Nate Silver has been morphing before our eyes into exactly the kind of bloviator he made his name mocking. Tired perhaps of the slow and predictable business of prognostication—the elections so far apart from each other, the long months of waiting and lousy web traffic in between—the founder of data journalism outlet FiveThirtyEight has transformed his Twitter account into a font of provocatively bad opinions. Some of Nate’s Takes have touched on his speciality in data-based political forecasting: He has told us, for instance, not to get ...

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

Joseph Lister: father of modern surgery

The Wonderful World of Opera Dogs: Giuseppe Verdi’s Hunting Companion & Pampered Pet

The Fall of Nate Silver

Anaximenes of Miletus

The Many Legacies of Simón Bolívar

Politics

The Many Legacies of Simón Bolívar

It is impossible to visit South America without encountering Simón Bolívar. The “great liberator” is everywhere: gazing down from statues, declaring his name from road signs, taking to the pitch on soccer players’ shirts.Such ubiquity is historically curious and, given its great-man-of-his...

Leibniz as legal scholar

Law

Leibniz as legal scholar

These days, Leibniz is very famous for his contributions to philosophy, especially in the field of metaphysics, and to mathematics, especially for the invention of calculus and the binary numeral system. However, attention has seldom been drawn to the fact that Leibniz was also, particularly at t...

The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries

Physics

The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries

Lurking behind Einstein’s theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was.The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein’s cent...