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pasttense.co.uk | ||
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biographics.org
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| | | | | He's the man who killed a king. Oliver Cromwell, the English Puritan turned military dictator, is today most famous for signing the death warrant that led to Charles I's bloody execution in 1649. Over a hundred years before the American and French Revolutions shook the globe, this small-time farmer from the British sticks proved with steel that the divine right of kings was not so holy after all. But what set Cromwell on his path to infamy? What possessed a guy who worked in agriculture to drop his tools... | |
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www.palladiummag.com
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| | | | | [AI summary] The article discusses the life and legacy of Abbé Gregoire, a key figure in the French Revolution, emphasizing his role in the regeneration of society through republican institutions. It traces his influence on global movements, including the abolition of slavery, the rise of republics in Latin America, and the adaptation of regeneration ideology in Asia and Zionism. The piece highlights how the Revolution's structural logic, rather than its Enlightenment ideals, became the foundation for modern state-building and national identity formation worldwide, despite the collapse of the Enlightenment's original cultural conditions. | |
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historyforatheists.com
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| | | | | Along with "the Witch Craze" and "the Crusades", the violence and oppression of "the Inquisition" is part of a triumvirate of historical atrocities that is usually invoked by anti-theists as proof of the wickedness of Christianity in particular and religion in general. "Everyone knows" these things were evil, even though what most people know about each of these things is largely wrong. This is perhaps most the case with "the Inquisition"; given that there was never a single institution by... Read More R... | |
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eu.crimethinc.com
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| | | Seven years ago, anarchists and other anti-fascists converged in Charlottesville, Virginia to oppose the "Unite the Right" rally. A retrospective. | ||
