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Sun Tzu on the Art of War: Energy

Tactical Dispositions [1] Weak Points and Strong [1] Energy Sun Tzu said: The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a…

Millennium Milestones

The 100 Most Significant Events of the Last Thousand Years Reducing the millennium to a laundry list of highlights cannot pretend to be a definitive or accurate exercise. Note that only…

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 18

by Oscar Wilde Chapter 17Chapter 19Chapter 18 The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet…

Timeline: Russian Culture, Part III

Part III: The Golden Age       1756 1801 1852 1900 Next: Soviet Period       1756 Czarina Elizabeth allies Russia with France; cult of French…

55 Sad Quotes From Movies

Movies have the power to evoke strong emotions in us, and there's nothing quite like a good tear-jerker to bring on the waterworks. Some of the most heart-wrenching moments in cinema history are…

baroque, in art and architecture

(Encyclopedia) baroquebaroquebərōkˈ [key], in art and architecture, a style developed in Europe, England, and the Americas during the 17th and early 18th cent. The baroque style is characterized by…

Movie Timeline

Here are key moments in the history and evolution of the cinema. 1889William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison, builds the first motion-picture camera and names it the…

Kant, Immanuel

(Encyclopedia) Kant, ImmanuelKant, Immanuelĭmänˈ&oomacr;ĕl känt [key], 1724–1804, German metaphysician, one of the greatest figures in philosophy, b. Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). The…

torture

(Encyclopedia) torture, the intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering in order to intimidate, coerce, obtain information or a confession, or punish. In international law,…