“The claims allegedly made by Sylvia Plath in unpublished letters to her former psychiatrist, suggesting that she was beaten by her husband, Ted Hughes, days before she miscarried their second child are as absurd as they are shocking to anyone who knew Ted well.” The couple remained married until Hughes’…
During its more than five-month stint on Mars last year, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander found evidence that liquid water existed at the spacecraft’s landing site, some Phoenix team members say. Images of one of Phoenix’s struts taken by the lander’s robotic arm camera on Sols (or Martian days) 8, 31…
Aristotle rejected Plato’s theory of Forms but not the notion of form itself. For Aristotle, forms do not exist independently of things—every form is the form of some thing. Work: Plato’s work has survived over the years. However,about 80% of Aristotle’s work has gone missing over the years. Statesmanship and…
His case gave Wright the only guilty verdict in his entire law career, while Wright earned the other client an acquittal. He was also one of only two clients not to be acquitted by Wright, the other being Zak Gramarye due to the latter’s escape before a verdict could be…
Moreover, Plato holds that our souls learned about the Forms before we were born, so we already know them—we have innate knowledge that needs to be elicited through the Socratic method. Following Parmenides, Plato privileges rationalism over empiricism, or reason over the senses, as the way we know. The Greek…
The idea behind the method is that the ladybugs will eat the pests that are bothering the plants and reproduce, increasing your overall population of ladybugs. The more ladybugs you have living in your garden, the fewer pests you’ll have bothering your plants. Since most ladybugs feed on aphids and…
That job was very unpleasant, and I never regretted leaving.” Roberts also didn’t enjoy his character, who was in his 30s, to always seek approval and direction from his father and called this part of the storyline “silly.” Pernell Roberts, who starred on the TV show “Bonanza,” left after six…
Of course, friends can be wrong—after all, in the novels and TV series, Perry and Della never did get married. (They did marry in the 1936 movie version of The Case of the Velvet Claws, but all those 1930s Warner Brothers films strayed far from the storyline established by Erle…
When she claimed to be superior to his wife Persephone, the angry goddess transformed her into a mint plant. The mint was probably used in ancient funerary rites to mask the smell of the dead and so came to be regarded as a sacred plant of HaidesHaidesHAIDES (Hades) was the…
Greco-Persian Wars, also called Persian Wars, (492–449 bce), series of wars fought by Greek states and Persia over a period of almost half a century. The fighting was most intense during two invasions that Persia launched against mainland Greece between 490 and 479. The first Persian invasion of Greece had…