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historyforatheists.com
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| | | | | If there is a story that forms the heart of New Atheist bad history, it's the tale of the Great Library of Alexandria and its destruction by a Christian mob. It's the central moral fable of the Draper-White Thesis, where wise and rational Greeks and Romans store up all the wisdom of the pre-Christian ancient world in a single library, treasuring science and reason and bringing western civilisation to the brink of a technological and industrial revolution. But then a... Read More Read More | |
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llewelynmorgan.com
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| | | | | Photo by Peter Gugerell, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La-Turbie-.jpg Some thoughts about the structure immediately above, thoughts that I've needed to have, then park while I crack on with other, more urgent things. You are looking at the Tropaeum Alpium, Trophy of the Alps, or Tropaeum Augusti, Trophy of Augustus, in La Turbie (which takes its name from it),... | |
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wng.org
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| | | | | An excerpt from Rodney Stark's How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity | |
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newsfromnorfolk.uk
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| | | This is an iron boot-scraper. For the better part of a century, it stood outside the front door of a Church of England rectory in a Norfolk village perched on the cusp of the eastern England, a liminal place where a vastness of greyish-lavender salt marsh softens the edges of the North Sea. The rectory... | ||
