Portugal remained steadfastly neutral in World War II, but became involved in counterinsurgency campaigns against scattered guerrilla movements in Portuguese Angola, Portuguese Mozambique, and Portuguese Guinea. The Portuguese Colonial War ( Portuguese: Guerra Colonial Portuguesa ), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War ( Guerra do Ultramar) or in…
The annual event has its origin in a German legend about a furry rodent. According to records dating back to 1887, Phil has predicted winter more than 100 times. Ten years were lost because no records were kept, organizers said. Though Phil has no meteorology degree, every year on February…
Pi is overjoyed to have a human companion and invites the Frenchman onto the lifeboat, calling him “brother.” As the man boards Pi’s lifeboat, he sets on Pi to kill and eat him. At the last minute, the man is killed by Richard Parker. Pi regains his eyesight and observes…
The three most famous philosophers of antiquity, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, all sported a beard with short cropped hair. Socrates, just as he never wrote anything down about his philosophy, so too never wrote down anything about his bodily hair. Quine defined Plato ’s beard – and his reason for…
It became the stamp of a Picasso piece. Sometimes, Picasso liked to blend them into the work, almost as if the signature became a part of the art. See if you can spot Picasso’s signature in the paintings below and learn more about some of his most famous works. You…
Augustine, in his academic life, was a scholar of Plato, and in his religious scholarship, the influence of his earlier Neoplatonic work was widespread and significant. Socrates and Aristotle belong to ANCIENT GREECE while Plato is from CLASSICAL GREECE. All the 3 were philosophers . Socrates’ main interests were ethics&Epistemology.…
In the opening sequence of the 1995 movie GoldenEye, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) jumps off the Verzasca Dam in Switzerland. The dam, also known as the Contra Dam, is 220 metre (720 feet) high hydroelectric dam, and is located close to the city of Locarno. Often cited as Pierce Brosnan’s…
“Socrates wrote nothing,” Princeton professor Melissa Lane writes in her exemplary study, Plato’s Progeny: How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind. “A man who confined himself to oral discussion,” writes Bertrand Russell in his marvelous The History of Western Philosophy. Plato’s dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts…
Pierce Brosnan played James Bond four times: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999), and Die Another Day (2002). How old was Pierce Brosnan when he played James Bond? Irish actor Pierce Brosnan won critical acclaim for his suave interpretation of Bond, and the actor…
“You are a king, then!” said Governor Pilate. King Jesus answered with abandonment, “You say that I am a king. Instead, in fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” So Pilate…