Portrait of a scholar (Archimedes?). Domenico Fetti, 1620. Early life and education Archimedes was born into a family connected to the ruling elite of Syracuse. In his work ‘The Sand-Reckoner’, Archimedes gives his father’s name as Phidias, an astronomer about […]
In September 2020, I took my kids apple picking at a small, quiet orchard in Massachusetts called Windy Hill Farm. It was our first weekend away from home since the pandemic had started. The trees dripped with so much fruit,
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Madame Bovary, c’est moi. The phrase, often attributed to Gustave Flaubert, may be better known than any line in his novels. But many scholars consider the remark to be apocryphal. It has trickled down through history thirdhand, first appearing in
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First proposed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the 1850s, the theory of evolution is now a cornerstone of modern science. It is a unifying theory that underpins biological science, explaining how all life on Earth developed from
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An extraordinary claim that Allied prisoners of war involved in the Great Escape were betrayed by two of their own side has come to light in files at The National Archives. Seventy-six prisoners escaped from Stalag Luft III camp 80
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Hariulf’s History of St Riquier Translated by Kathleen Thompson Manchester University PressISBN: 978 1 5261 5410 1 This translation explores the evolution of a monastic community from its founding in the seventh century up to the year 1088. Historians will
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Vanessa Armstrong History Correspondent On November 10, 1898, white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, massacred upwards of 60 Black people and overthrew the city’s democratically elected government, instigating the only successful coup d’état in United States history. No one was
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Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three
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The Sixth Amendment. Most of us take it for granted that if we’re ever in court and we can’t afford a lawyer, the court will provide one for us. And in fact, the right to an attorney is written into
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