Homer, the ancient Greek poet, is praised as one of the first scholars in the history of Western culture. His major works, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were widely used in schools in ancient Greek and Hellenistic cultures and were often the first literary works taught to all students. They helped the later generations learn […]
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Merlin the Magician appears in numerous texts written from Welsh and English folklore after the eleventh century A.D. usually connected with the King Arthur legend. He had special powers that among other things enabled him to see into the future. Scholars have put together profiles of the person from this literature, but in reality, who
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Edgar Allan Poe was widely renowned as being one of the first great writers of the horror genre. His work paved the way for many others to come along, even to this day. He lived an up and down life of victories and defeats, seemingly one after the other. As he wrote many mysteries, there
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Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, also known by his nickname Caligula, became Romes’s third emperor at the age of twenty-four. He has been depicted in literature as hedonistic, capricious, sadistic, and probably insane. His reign as emperor became chaos and lasted only about four years before he was finally assassinated by his own guards. But what
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At their last supper together, Jesus Christ and his disciples shared a sip of wine from a cup in what became a communal ritual for the Christian Church. The ritual continues to this day, but whatever happened to the cup and where it currently resides remains the subject of a vast amount of (mostly) medieval
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He’s been called the world’s greatest lover. He was certainly a major womanizer, having over a hundred affairs with different women. In many cases his partners were what would be considered underage by today’s standards, and some of his liaisons involved women who were emotionally or psychologically unstable. He was an adventurer looking for pleasure
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In this episode, LAPD detectives Aguilar and Lee are pursuing a serial killer who is terrorizing the area in the Harbor/Gateway District along Sultan Road. On the chance that Ben Williams’s killers would turn up at the offices of the South Bay Neighborhood Association the next day to get paid, Aguilar and Lee drove to
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Ferdinand Magellan is generally credited as the first person to ever circumnavigate the globe, from 1519 – 1522. He left Seville, Spain, with five ships and about 270 crewmen. However, he never returned, being killed about half way through on a beach in what is now known as the Philippines. Only one of the five
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