Drafted in 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a text that sets out the natural and inalienable rights of individuals.

Cicero’s “De divinatione” (44 BCE), which rejects astrology and other supposedly divinatory techniques, serves as a rich historical source for understanding the conception of scientificity in ...

The Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) was a writer and humanist of the Enlightenment era, a great lover of freedom, without taboos and the involvement of God. His work, which is both the theory and the ...

On November 11, 1918, the armistice was signed, marking the end of World War I. The extreme right attributed this failure to the home front, Jews, Republicans, and the left. Anton Drexler, 1920. On ...

Have you ever wondered how the world came to be, according to ancient Norse beliefs? What was there before the earth, the sky, the sea, and the gods? The answer is Ginnungagap, the vast and empty ...

The Yule Lads, or the Jólasveinarnir in Icelandic, are legendary figures that are said to reside in the mountains and make an appearance in the town 13 nights before Yule. They are all named after ...

The Battle of Aspern-Essling, also known as the Battle of Aspern, took place from May 20 to 22, 1809. Following an initial assault against the French forces in Bavaria, which proved to be a defeat, ...

The Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt refers to the emergence or reunification of the Pharaonic central state. The history of Ancient Egypt knows three such events: the initial formation of the ...

The Byzantine Emperor Marcian decided to convene a council to address various theological questions. The Council of Chalcedon took place at the Church of Saint Euphemia in Chalcedon from October 8 to ...

In 1450, Charles VII undertook the reconquest of Normandy. While a new English army lands in Cherbourg, the King of France sends John II, Duke of Bourbon to intercept it. On April 15, 1450, the two ...

Why Is Sleeping in Advance Won’t Usually Work? Our biological clock isn’t the only factor that determines when we start to feel tired and how long we can go without sleeping.

In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a doctorate candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived a few minutes late to Jerzy Neyman’s statistics lecture while there were two homework problems ...