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In the seventeenth century, Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) was a very central and highly influential figure in the European intellectual and scientific communities; a man, who almost literally knew everybody and was known by everybody in those communities. Today, in the big names, big events, popular versions of the history of science he remains only known…

Acesso Music about his autobiography "Heavy Duty: Days And Nights In Judas Priest", which was released in September 2018 via Da Capo Press. Addressing his reasons for telling his life story in book form, Downing said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "With the book, I wanted people to get to know me a little bit better. I wanted to try and answer some of their questions — unanswered questions maybe — and I just thought it would be good for me to leave my recollections and memoirs fo...

Library of books. (Getty) In the spring of 2016, after spending over a decade — my entire career — at the same Boston book publishing company, I began to look for a new job. I secured an interview and showed up with a portfolio of my best marketing campaigns. “These are all for novels,” the person interviewing me commented, examining first an ad, then a postcard, then a sticker, each showcasing in some way a fictional story. “Fiction is sort of my specialty,” I said. She replied, �...

USA TODAY The claim: George S. Patton said, Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. A meme dating to 2015, claiming that World War II Gen. George S. Patton expressed disdain for left-wing Democrats, surfaced on Facebook in the days after the November election. It’s already gotten a one-two fact-check punch from Snopes and PolitiFact. The short answer: There is no evidence that Patton — an innovator in the use of tanks in comba...

JEA: The Daily Mail declared last December that “Mystery over US war hero’s death in hospital 12 days after he was paralyzed in an apparent car accident still fuels conspiracy theory years later.”[1] The funny thing is that by charging others of summoning conspiracy theory, the Daily Mail could not hide the fact that General George Patton was evidently assainated. Listen to this very carefully here: “Seventy- four years ago this month, General George S. Patton was en route to a Sunday...

Allan Bloom’s 1987 meditation,  The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students, was a run-away bestseller. Bloom made this observation of popular music: “Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music…Today, a very large proportion of young people between the ages of ten and twenty live for music. It is their passion; nothing else excites them as it does; they cannot take seriously a...