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Listing…
From The New Yorker, The Hundred Best Lists of All Time. ### As we rankle at the rankings, we might note that this was the Feast Day of the Ass in ancient Rome. The festival honored Vesta, the...
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“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with...
The commercial Christmas card as we know it originated in London in 1843. That winter, Sir Henry Cole, a civil servant who helped organize the Great Exhibition and develop the Victoria and Albert...
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“If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything...
The images that pop up in most people’s heads when they think about superheroes can be traced back to the 1938 debut of Superman and the genre evolution that followed. But it’s possible to go back...
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“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right”*…
People disagree about morality. They disagree about what morality prohibits, permits and requires. And they disagree about why morality prohibits, permits and requires these things. Moreover, at...
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“See the turtle of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the earth”*…
An illustration of the “Hindu Earth” from 1876 On the roots of a surprisingly wide-spread– and durable– image… Anyone who’s ever heard the expression “it’s turtles all the way down” is probably...
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“All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man will have their...
[source] In 1999, Santa Cruz, California software engineer John Bruno Hare founded what he hoped would become “a quiet place in cyberspace”… Welcome to the largest freely available archive of online...
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“The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already”*…
Or do they? As the estimable Emily Watson explains, one woman– Edith Hamilton— had a great deal to do with our acquaintance with the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, and in a way that had as much...
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