TimaeusBy Plato Written 360 B.C.E Translated by Benjamin Jowett Persons of the Dialogue-SOCRATES- CRITIAS- TIMAEUS- HERMOCRATES Socrates. One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those who were yesterday my guests and are to be my entertainers to-day? Timaeus. He...
The Gulf Oil Spill burn off fires create toxic gas. Chemist Wilma Subra and Scientist MacArthur Grant offered a video for Takepart.com highlighting the significant, long term risks of burning the oil in the Gulf. Subra and Grant conclude that burning off the oil, though an easy and...
Riots display human beings acting at their worst. Usually the result of political or social turmoil, most riots rely on killing, raping, looting and widespread destruction to get their point across. After examining the tolls that riots take on society, we have to wonder whether this is an effective...
Taylor Alison Swift is an American country and pop recording singer, songwriter, philanthropist, and actress. Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Swift is one of two children born to Scott Kingsley Swift, a stockbroker, and Andrea Finlay Gardner, a homemaker, and...
Pirates! They weren’t all Johnny Depp-swaying, dainty and witty denizens of the sea. Here’s a list of the fifteen bloodiest, unluckiest or simply most fashionably dressed.
In a controversial photo that may have helped end the Vietnam War, 9-year-old Kim Phuc Phan Thai ran naked through a street after suffering napalm burns over much of her body. The photo was taken in 1972 by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut. At 46 years old, Kim Phuc Phan is now a public...
Most people hope they'll die by passing in their sleep, in a peaceful setting, or maybe surrounded by loved ones. But for the victims of these 15 executions, that couldn't be further from reality. Whether it's being set on fire inside of a tire or having your limbs slowly cut off, these deaths are...
Auld Lang Syne is a song traditionally in most English speaking and many other countries played on New Year's Eve. The phrase Auld Lang Syne translates in English to mean "old long since" or "long, long, ago." Auld Lang Syne is based upon a Scottish poem originally written by James Watson in...
The Undertaker" was burned while entering the ring during Sunday night's World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-view event, "The Elimination Chamber." In the wrestling competition for the world heavyweight champion, WWE spokesman, Robert Zimmerman, confirmed that wrestler's burns were due to a...
When we think of animals that will destroy us, rend us limb from limb, and leave us in a bloody mess, we usually thing of the huge and horrifying. Which means we forget about the real threats: the tiny, the cute, the gorgeous. The animals at which we ooh and aaah over, but are deadly, poisonous...
