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• Franz Hessel

  

  One of the interesting characters from early 20th-Century Schwabing was Franz Hessel, a flaneur and friend of Walter Benjamin's whom Anke Gleber has... Read more

  The 10 October 2011 by   Praymont
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• From Paleolithic Diviners to Axial Prophets

  

  A person of many astute observations, one of Robert Bellah’s most astute is his refrain (when talking about the history of religions) that “nothing is ever... Read more

  The 09 October 2011 by   Cris
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• 3 Knives That Changed The World

  

  image credit Of all of humankind's early inventions there are few that are still commonplace in the modern home. The fan assisted oven has replaced fire and I... Read more

  The 07 October 2011 by   Gerard
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• Top 10 Most Ridiculous Wannabe Rulers Of Nations

  

  image credit Leaders can be pretty entertaining when they lose their ever-loving minds and just start with the power abuse and quirky behavior. But the things... Read more

  The 06 October 2011 by   Gerard
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• Swerving with Lucretius

  

  It is nice to see Lucretius finally getting his due. In The Swerve: How The World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt pays homage to the Roman poet (and his... Read more

  The 04 October 2011 by   Cris
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• Troubled Grandeur in This View of Life

  

  In the celebrated closing of the Origin of Species, Darwin hits his lyrical stride with a paradox: Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the... Read more

  The 28 September 2011 by   Cris
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• Jurisprudence: Defining the Nature of Law

  

  Photo courtesy of iStockphoto There are four general philosophical theories of jurisprudence, what defines the nature of law. The theory of natural law... Read more

  The 28 September 2011 by   Realizingresonance
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• Dead Sea Scrolls Online

  

  image credit Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went onlin... Read more

  The 27 September 2011 by   Gerard
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• BOOKS -- 1861: Civil War Awakening

  

  I recently was asked by the Delmarva Review to review the new book by Adam Goodheart on the opening months of the Civil War. Here's what I came up with: 1861... Read more

  The 26 September 2011 by   Kena
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• Sakhalin, 1894 - 1905

  

  The Sakhalin Island near the Far Eastern coast of Russia was inhabited until the 19th century only by its ancient natives: the Nivkhs in the north and the Ainu... Read more

  The 22 September 2011 by   Gerard
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