More April Birthdays
Martyn Greene, Peter Frampton, Stephen Douglas, Roy Orbison, Anthony Trollope, Walter de la Mare
Author: Thomas Fleming
A Brief Outline of the Revolution
In its early phases, this revolution, under the guise of a restoration of classical learning and civilization, became known as the Renaissance, and, as it gathered steam and changed direction, new names were applied, such as Enlightenment and Modernism
Burial of the Dead
Although we moderns look at questions of inheritance largely in economic terms, Jews, Greeks, and Romans were also interested in the continuity of the bloodline and in the carrying out of ritual obligations, particularly to the dead testator and his ancestors.
Birthdays, April 18-23
Pigmeat Markham, Eliot Ness, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Adolf Hitler, Napoleon III, Charlotte Bronte, Glen Campbell
A Thousand Years of Jihad
In case you have not glanced at the left side of the website, please note:
A THOUSAND YEARS OF JIHAD – NOW AVAILABLE
On Alasdair MacIntyre
On Facebook, I posted a bit of my musings on the “secular confession,” and a FB ‘friend” wondered if my Morality of Everyday Life, which he had ordered, was much like Alasdair MacIntyre. I posted the following answer..
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Butch Cassidy, Thomas Jefferson, Loretta Lynn, Pete Rose, Leonardo da Vinci, Durkheim, Charlie Chaplin
