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Horace

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Henry Adams

American historian and member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents

David Strauss

A German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portr...

Lycurgus of Sparta

Lycurgus of Sparta

The quasi-legendary lawgiver of Sparta who established the military-oriented reformation of Spart...

Josephus

A first-century Romano-Jewish historian who was born in Jerusalem

Jacques Necker

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

Thomas Young

A British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics...

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Hero of Alexandria Changed the World with this Invention Much Earlier than Many Thought

Hero of Alexandria Changed the World with this Invention Much Earlier than Many Thought

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In 1681, French-born Denis Papin made a unique discovery after an unfortunate accident with a pressure cooker. Papin’s attempts to extract fat from animal bones in a steam induced high-pressured container were a failure when the vessel exploded. However, before the unfortunate termination of his experiment, Papin had observed how the steam raised the lid of his pot. It was the inspiration Papin needed to conceive a prototype steam driven piston. Papin’s experiment in its turn formed in 1705, the basis for Thomas Savoy’s steam engine, which played such a vital role in the early industrial re...

Simon Stevin, Flemish Tutor to a Dutch Prince

Simon Stevin, Flemish Tutor to a Dutch Prince

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Bruges engineer and mathematician Simon Stevin (1548-1620) is sometimes called the Leonardo Da Vinci of the Low Countries, for he is responsible for many revolutionary discoveries in physics, architecture, mathematics and linguistics.Simon Stevin is best known for his introduction of decimal fractions, which later led to the establishment of the decimal system of weights and measures. But he was also the brains behind many technical inventions, of which the 28-passenger sailing chariot he built for use on the seashore was probably the best known to his contemporaries.For those...

William Penn's Legacy: Religious and Spiritual Diversity

William Penn's Legacy: Religious and Spiritual Diversity

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Alexander Milne Calder's bronze statue of William Penn atop Philadelphia City Hall surveys the founder's beloved Holy Experiment fashioned out of the ideals of his Quaker faith. In a seventeenth-century world conditioned by violence, religious persecution, and arbitrary authority, Penn established an unusual colony dedicated to the principles of religious toleration, participatory government, and brotherly love.Such a utopian society had never been attempted in the annals of human history, and its success was reflected by the religious and spiritual diversity that became Pennsylvania's defining characteristic. Penn's belief that "no people can be truly happy if abridged of the freedom of their consciences" attracted to his colony not only Quakers who had been persecuted in England, but Protestants, Catholics, and Jews from a dozen different lands, all of whom had suffered because of restrictions on their religious beliefs....

Why Yo-Yo Ma thinks culture and music can help protect the planet

Why Yo-Yo Ma thinks culture and music can help protect the planet

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On 21 April, Yo-Yo Ma featured in a special National Geographic Earth Day Eve concert: you can re-watch the broadcast here. On a sunlit February morning in Cape Town, Ross Frylinck waited near the doorway of a private home perched on a steep mountainside overlooking False Bay. Co-founder of the Sea Change Project, an environmental organization dedicated to preserving the kelp forest in South Africa’s coastal waters, Frylinck had gathered with a group of colleagues and musicians to welcome Yo-Yo Ma to Cape Town, one of 36 stops on the cellist’s six-continent tour know...

Hero of Alexandria Changed the World with this Invention Much Earlier than Many Thought

Simon Stevin, Flemish Tutor to a Dutch Prince

William Penn's Legacy: Religious and Spiritual Diversity

Why Yo-Yo Ma thinks culture and music can help protect the planet

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Montaigne on Death and the Art of Living

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Montaigne on Death and the Art of Living

French Renaissance writer Michel de Montaigne (February 28, 1533–September 13, 1592), celebrated as the father of modern skepticism, pioneered the essay as a literary genre and penned some of the most enduring, influential essays in history. Collected in Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays (...

Tony Hawk Wants to See Skateboarding Everywhere

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Tony Hawk Wants to See Skateboarding Everywhere

When Tony Hawk first picked up a skateboard in the 1970s, he didn’t see skaters in their 50s on the streets or skate parks around his hometown of San Diego.“The unspoken rule was once you reached adult age, you can’t skate anymore,” he says. “For one, there’s no living to be made at it. Se...

The Brontës’ Secret

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The Brontës’ Secret

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 appea...