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.
The camp makes a profit from the prisoners' work, but nothing is shared with the zeks.
The zeks on Ivan Denisovich's team devour their lunch soup (and sop it up with stale bread saved from an earlier meal).
As the zeks construct their building, disagreements erupt over proper procedures.
It is dark before Ivan Denisovich's team can return from their work at the power station.
Receiving a package from home is a great event for a prisoner, but every single item in the parcel is inspected by a guard before the prisoner can cla...
Even in the GULAG, men stash their precious belongings.
The charismatic Bolshevik leader, born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, helped to overthrow four hundred years of tsarist rule in Russia.
Who was the Buddha, the man who founded a religion followed by around 400 million people? Step back in time to uncover his origins.
In this video - highlighting Margaret Thatcher's speech to the House of Commons on the 30th of October, 1990 - she explains why she is so opposed to B...
Dr. King gives his powerful, transforming ''I Have a Dream'' speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
On April 3, 1968 - while in Memphis supporting sanitation workers - MLK gave a moving speech. It was his last.
Pope Julius II talks to Michelangelo about his work, on the creation of Adam, in this scene from The Agony and the Ecstacy (a 1965 film based on the b...
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