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A new biography portrays Blake as a prophet – but is there more to him than X-rated fancies and sub-Tolkien silliness?

  Euclid’s Elements was the first major work to organise mathematics as an axiomatic system. Starting from a set of clearly stated and self-evident truths called axioms, a large collection of theorems is constructed by logical reasoning. For some, the Elements is a magnificent triumph of human thought; for others, it is a tedious tome, painfully prolix and patently pointless. By modern standards, the Elements contains some serious flaws. It is a dry text without illustrations, motivation...

An island lesson in racial harmony While I was doing my bit for the war-effort between 1940 and 1945 we lived ‘in the town’ in rooms at the corner of Stornoway’s Castle Street and Point Street. Saturday, 8th May 2021, 12:00 am Across the road was a merchant’s depot at which horse-drawn carts regularly pulled up to disgorge vast quantities of curers’ salt. A minute’s walk along Point Street would bring you past Dan Dougal’s dairy, the same Dan Dougal’s butcher-shop, Jimmy ’Clea...

The independence of Vietnam was considered to be one of the major event in the aftermath of the World War II. In fact,the President of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh announced in 1945.

Advancing Indigenous Self-Determination Share: grandriver via iStock I helped sue the Chilean government in my first case after graduating from law school. The lawsuit asserted violations of Indigenous rights perpetrated by the Chilean government and went before the Chilean Supreme Court. I was less than five years out of law school when I stood outside under the sun in the world’s driest desert, listening for hours. I listened as Indigenous leaders from nearby Likan-antai communities des...

From Howard Zinns Peoples History of the United States— Classic Archives: The Gulf of Tonkin con job and other covered up facts by mainstream media and historians Hal Ashbys Coming Home, with Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda among the leads was a powerful statement about the effects of the war in Vietnam on the home front. From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a national...

Artist Xu Beihongs Slave and Lion painting to fetch over $45 mn at Hong Kong auction SECTIONS Artist Xu Beihongs Slave and Lion painting to fetch over $45 mn at Hong Kong auctionReuters Last Updated: Apr 19, 2021, 06:57 PM IST Share Synopsis The painting was sold in 2006 at $6.9 mn, record at the time for a Chinese oil painting. Reuters The story behind the Slave and Lion painting is rooted in Roman mythology, according to Christies presentation. Related HONG KONG: Auction house Christies unvei...

Where Can You Send Your Children to University? Commentary Liberal arts education, as I experienced it at Antioch College in the late 1950s and early 1960s, was aimed at opening students’ minds to the intellectual life of Western culture. Students were asked to consider such questions as “What counts as a good life?”, “How do people’s ideas and actions differ from place to place and time to time?”, “What is the basis of social life?”, “Do people have free will or is life deter...

The egg opens to reveal a beautiful surprise in the form of a crown.

OOH, I do declare. Another waddle back into the mists of history this week, folks, to the 14h century, when men were men and never did Pilates. Our fuzzy focus is on the Declaration of Arbroath. You ken what I mean, right? Scots are notoriously ignorant of their own history but even the dimmest of them – George Galloway, say – knows about the DoA: “It’s that manky bit of parchment wi’a the daft wee tassles hingin’ oaf it.” That’s the one. What did you expect? Basildon Bond w...