Tag: History
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Santa Fe down to $8 per ticket, Southern Pacific responded with $6. By that afternoon reports of rates as low as $1 to California
Early in January 1887, Crank went east to New York in search of expansion capital. Scarcely had he arrived in New York City when Crank received an urgent invitation to visit Washington, DC, from Leland Stanford, who was then representing both the state of California and the greater Southern Pacific interests as a United States […]
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Prepare for pomegranate-smashing!
The pomegranate, a violet, segmented yummy plum, exquisite and worth the wait. Mythical Hades, god of the underworld, used pomegranate seeds, a sign of fertility, birth, and rebirth, to lure Persephone, goddess of spring, for a few months every year. (EZM) Persephone has seen the dead, married their king, eaten three or four or seven […]
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Un grupo humillado que busca la restitución de su dignidad tiene mucho más peso emocional que las personas que sólo buscan una ventaja económica
1 La política de la dignidad En algún momento a mediados de la segunda década del siglo XXI, la política mundial cambió drásticamente. El período desde principios de la década de 1970 hasta mediados de la década de 2000 fue testigo de lo que Samuel Huntington denominó la «tercera ola» de democratización, ya que el […]
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philosophical monism with democracy and a purely secular moral philosophy based on equality
Throughout the Enlightenment’s history it is this irresolvable duality—rooted in the metaphysical dichotomy of one-substance doctrine (Spinozistic monism) and two-substance dualism, the latter as upheld by John Locke (1632–1704) and Voltaire, as well as other providential Deists and (most) Christians and Jews—that was always the principal and overriding factor shaping its course. (Pg.17) *** Either […]
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But while in many places these core democratic values retain only a precarious foothold, they did finally triumph in much of the world after 1945.
That notions concerning “progress,” “improvement of society,” and what one now-forgotten radical-minded novelist of the 1790s termed the “amelioration of the state of mankind” were central to the Enlightenment is scarcely surprising.1 Four out of six of the Enlightenment’s philosophical founding figures—Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Bayle—held that most people’s ideas about the most fundamental questions […]
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Astrology & the Secrets In The Stars I Ancient Mysteries (S3, E28) | Full Docum…
as·trol·o·gy ə-ˈsträ-lə-jē : the divination of the supposed influences of the stars and planets on human affairs and terrestrial events by their positions and aspects. archaic : astronomy. astrological. astrology, type of divination that involves the forecasting of earthly and human events through the observation and interpretation of the fixed stars, the Sun, the Moon, and the planets. […]
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Churchill to Eden: The Collection of The Earl and Countess of Avon
Churchill to Eden: The Collection of The Earl and Countess of Avon comprising a wide variety of works of fine and decorative art from the fascinating collection of former Prime Minister Anthony Eden, and his wife Clarissa (née Churchill).⠀ Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon was an English memoirist and the second wife of Anthony […]
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But the neoliberal revolution attributed to Thatcher and Reagan had to be accomplished by democratic means.
In the US case I begin with a confidential memo sent by Lewis Powell to the US Chamber of Commerce in August 1971. Powell, about to be elevated to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon, argued that criticism of and opposition to the US free enterprise system had gone too far and that ‘the time […]
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Ménétra’s experiences prepared him to understand possibilities
TWO FRENCH LIVES IN THE OLD REGIME ON JANUARY 21, 1793, LOUIS XVI, KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE, HEIR to fourteen centuries of French monarchy, mounted the steps of the scaffold in Paris and met his death under the guillotine. His death became the symbol of the victorious revolutionary movement that had begun with the […]
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Hades & The Underworld Explained In 15 Minutes | Best Greek Mythology Documentary
Hades, God of the Underworld, ruled over Elysium, The Asphodel Meadows, Tartarus, & The Fields of Morning, the places souls were sent when they passed onto The Realm of the Dead. No one would be able to escape Hades’ judgment, with Sisyphus, Ixion, Ocnus, Tantalus & The Danaides undergoing some of his most renowned punishments. […]
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Religious practices, traditions, and customs are not meaningless. They are reasonable
On co-opting religion, banknotes’ slogan “in God, we trust” shows a preference for a particular ideology edging out others. Why not in Mary we trust? Or in the Holy Spirit, we trust? Or even in Jesus, we trust. In July 1955, Ike, President from 1953 to 1961, signed House Bill H.R. 619, requiring the inscription […]
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A word of caution. Always stay present! If you see little embers fall on the ground, tamp them out immediately
The ancient Egyptians and Romans used Sage, an herb with several promising health benefits, to treat digestive issues, memory problems, and sore throats. Dried sage was burned as a way to heal, protect, increase perspicuity, and boost defense against disease. Native Americans and other indigenous peoples have burned sage, for centuries, as a spiritual ritual […]
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