Benjamin Franklin is a figure of historic importance. He is what used to be called a “man of letters” and a polymath, but this only goes so far in explaining how important he was during his life, and how important he remains after his death. Franklin is a founding father of the United States, for
The United States has had more serial killers than any other nation in modern history. US law enforcement communities even found it necessary to define the term, back in the 1960s. Before then the very idea of a serial killer had not even been conceived. There is something about the lonely highways, the disappearances and
Pytheas is not a familiar name, even to those familiar with the ancient world. But in this man we see a resolve, a determination to explore and to discover, which merits him a place among the greats. The world used to be a smaller one than it is now. For the civilizations of ancient Europe
Shakespeare was a genius. His plots may have been stolen, his knowledge of the worlds about which he wrote flawed and incomplete, but his poetry and his genius as a weaver of narrative threads is unsurpassed, even four hundred years later. How was it that a provincial glover’s son born in the early years of
On November 6th 2024 Donald Trump was elected as President of the United States for the second time, only the second President in history to win non-consecutive terms. Many of the impartial observers of the election result view this as a win not for American democracy, not even for the Republic Party, but for one
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