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Charles Alfred Meurer’s mother was visiting family in Germany when she gave birth to Charles. They returned to Clarksville, Tennessee where Meurer grew up. In 1881 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and was in the grocery business with his brother, when in in 1882, he bought some artist’s brushes and colors and painted during his spare time. One painting, a panorama of Clarksville done from the top a nearby hill, showed so much promise that he enrolled in classes at the Cincinnati Art Academy in ...

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Advocates praise Bitcoin’s freedom from interference while deriding “positive” freedoms to act on free will. But Bitcoin requires both.

What should libertarians (or classical liberals) think of the French Revolution?

The attachment to autocracy prevails over the current appreciation of the state of democracy. Still tottering, to be sure.

La política negativa ha sido tan efectiva que muchos han llegado al poder aplicándola. | Columnistas | ElTiempo.com

Asunción lleva en los genes el sabor y el aroma a cítricos. Desde los primeros tiempos la ciudad olía a azahares por doquier. Con el avance de la urbe en las calles opuso resistencia el apepu en un romance casi pasional con la capital y sus habitantes. La pandemia revivió viejas recetas y agudizó su perfume.

Ten months after the explosion, experts say the grain is a health hazard

Thomas Jefferson, for example, admired the ancients, and even called himself an Epicurean.[1] But he also wrote: Let a just view be taken of the moral principles inculcated by the most esteemed of the sects of antt. [= ancient] philosophy, or of their individuals; particularly Pythagoras, Socrates, Epicurus, Cicero, Epictetus, Seneca, Antoninus [= Marcus Aurelius] …. 1. Their precepts related chiefly to ourselves, and the government of those passions which, unrestrained, would disturb our t...