What does it mean to have a "world view?" How does "thinking about the meaning of life" translate into "living life?" Who are the world's great thinkers? Is Aristotle still relevant? This Collection features philosophy-related stories.
In the late summer of 1831, Charles Darwin was invited to accompany Captain Robert FitzRoyon avoyage aboard a ship to South America.
Charles Darwin was grief stricken when his daughter Annie died (most likely from tuberculosis).
This image depicts a facsimile page from the Codex Vaticanus (the original of which dates to the mid-4th Century, A.D.). The specific page, which we s...
There was a time when religion and science were linked. During those medieval days, moralisées - such as Codex Vindobonensis 2554 - illustrated how r...
A moralisée, popular in the medieval era, is a pictorial Bible in which Biblical events and their “moralizations” are presented in ...
The Catholic Church bans Nicolaus Copernicus's book on the 5th of March, 1616 (decades after his death). Why ban a book which Catholic Universities ha...
Who risked all to aid those in need during the Holocaust? Corrie Ten Boom, a Dutch woman living in the town of Haarlem with her father and sister, dec...
Cosmo Lang was Archbishop of Canterbury during Britain's 1936 abdication crisis.
A Caliph, called Omar, allegedly wrote "The Covenant of Peace," directed to Christians living in Jerusalem.
Two close friends, C.S. LewisandJ.R.R. Tolkien, debate the differences between myths and lies.
As Dante and Virgil reach the City of Dis, they see the flaming towers of a city seemingly on fire. Inhabitants of Dis wonder how these two individual...
Known as Dostoevsky's most-violent novel, "Demons" is based on a real-life murder which took place in 1869.
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