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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Aristotle (384-322 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist. One of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western thought, Aristotle established the foundations for the modern scientific method of enquiry. Statue

Philosophers to Know, Part I

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke

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Were the Nazis Socialists?

Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.

Did George Washington Really Say, “I Can’t Tell a Lie”?

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6 Classical Dances of India

The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

New Seven Wonders of the World

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The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

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Born	January 13, 1929 • Copenhagen • Denmark
Died	December 16, 2001 (aged 72) • Copenhagen • Denmark

Sir Leslie Stephen

British critic

Jacob Paludan

Danish author

H.L. Mencken

American writer

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Es’kia Mphahlele

South African writer

Johan Borgen

Norwegian author

Artur Lundkvist

Swedish writer and critic

George Ripley

American journalist

August Šenoa

Croatian writer

Georg Brandes

Danish writer

Johan Ludvig Heiberg

Danish author

Klaus Rifbjerg

Danish writer

Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Wyndham Lewis

British artist and writer

Edmund Wilson

American critic

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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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