For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history and fascism at New York University, wrote on X that the gesture was a “Nazi salute – and a very belligerent one too”. But the Anti-Defamation League ...

If you don’t want to sound academic, don’t subtitle an essay ‘On the Dialectics of Eschatology in Stifter and Handke’ A sense of Heimat, or homeland, is also key — and indisputably ...

I want to tamper that down," Hochul said. At her State of the State address, Gov. Hochul gave a brief outline of the proposed six-month initiative that would ramp up patrols between 9 p.m. and 5 a ...

Some of the biggest mergers in history, like AOL and Time Warner, have had varying levels of success. The $130 billion merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont created a focused business in agriculture ...

In an 1863 essay for Le Figaro, then a biweekly literary newspaper and the ancestor of today’s conservative broadsheet, he delivered a rapturous ode to the newspaper sketch artist Constantin Guys, ...

The creed, attributed to the earliest missionary followers of Jesus, distills the basic outline of what it means to be a Christian ... but it came from what really happened in history and what really ...

Join students in college classrooms to hear lectures on topics ranging from the American Revolution to 9-11. Covering American History C-SPAN style: with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, and ...

Sixth form entries: ‘How does monetary policy work? Explain how monetary decisions affect main macroeconomic outcomes such as the nominal GDP and inflation’. Undergraduate entries: ‘Explain how ...