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Rembrandt van Rijn
One of the great Dutch painters and printmakers of the 17th century, Rembrandt van Rijn is best known for his expressive use of light and shadow (also called chiaroscuro) in his many portraits.…Mortimer Adler 2001 Deaths
Mortimer AdlerAge: 98 philosopher, educator, and writer who helped to devise the Great Book learning program, which included 443 literary classics. His books include Aristotle for Everybody (…Telly Savalas
Name at birth: Aristotle SavalasTelly Savalas is best remembered as TV's Kojak. The show ran from 1973-78; Kojak was a loose and tough-talking New York police detective known for his shiny bald head…The Celtic Twilight: The Swine of the Gods
by W. B. Yeats Aristotle of the BooksA VoiceThe Swine of the Gods A few years ago a friend of mine told me of something that happened to him when he was a. young man and out drilling with…Martin Heidegger
German Martin Heidegger made his mark on western philosophy with the 1927 publication of Being and Time. Within that tradition, he’s sometimes said to be the most influential philosopher of the 20th…Aldus Manutius
(Encyclopedia) Aldus ManutiusAldus Manutiusălˈdəs məny&oomacr;ˈshəs [key] or Aldo ManuzioAldo Manuzioälˈdō män&oomacr;ˈtsyō [key], 1450–1515, Venetian printer. He was educated as a humanistic…zone
(Encyclopedia) zone [Gr.,=girdle], in geography, area with a certain physical and/or cultural unity that distinguishes it from other areas. The division of the earth into five climatic zones probably…biology
(Encyclopedia) biology, the science that deals with living things. It is broadly divided into zoology, the study of animal life, and botany, the study of plant life. Subdivisions of each of these…sea urchin
(Encyclopedia) sea urchin, spherical-shaped echinoderm with movable spines covering the body. The body wall is a firm, globose shell, or test, made of fused skeletal plates and marked by regularly…Sophists
(Encyclopedia) SophistsSophistssŏfˈĭsts [key], originally, itinerant teachers in Greece (5th cent. b.c.) who provided education through lectures and in return received fees from their audiences. The…Trending
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