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.
This clip, the beginning scenes of The Agony and the Ecstasy, starts with a view of the Dome of St.
Michelangelo, the artist who loved to sculpt, is better known for his paintings - particularly his frescoes at the Sistine Chapel.
This clip is from The Agony and the Ecstasy, a 1965 film about the Italian artist Michelangelo and his incredible:sculptures (such as the Moses, David...
In the 12th century, the King of England was vexed by Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
During World War II, General Eisenhower ordered that all Nazi-Party documents should be confiscated as the Allies liberated Germany.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a novel about what it was like to be a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp in Siberia's GULAG.
In this video-clip from The Greatest Story Ever Told, based on the Gospels and a book (of the same name) by Fulton Oursler (1893-1952), Pilate (the Ro...
When Martin Luther accuses the Catholic Church of ninety-five abuses—on October 31, 1517—his actions start a societal revolution, not just a relig...
People working on quantum mechanics began to find that certain laws of physics differed from Einsteins beliefs.
The blues which Michelangelo used in the Sistine-Chapel frescoes were imported from Afghanistan.
How did Michelangelo create the extensive frescoes we see today in the Sistine Chapel?
WARNING: THIS CLIP PROVIDES CLOSE-UPS OF MICHELANGELO'S FRESCOES.
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