Ruric and Russian State

Rurik 9th century

Vladimir V. Wiedemann Modern Russia stands as one of the world’s leading military powers. According to Alex Karp, head of the IT company Palantir, Russians excel at warfare and possess an outstanding mathematical tradition—qualities that compel the world to recognize Russia as a technological superpower on par with the United States and China. This article…

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The Last Chronicle of the Englisc

Bayeux Tapestry

Andrew Withers FRSA History, as it has been taught for centuries, states that in 1066 at the Battle of Senlac Hill, Guillaume the Bastard of Normandy became King of England. Anglo-Saxon England did not die on October 14th, 1066; far from it, the struggle against yet another large-scale Nordic incursion on the scale of ‘The…

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Wittgenstein, Language, and Thought

Philosophy of Education

An Extract From On the Philosophy of Education by Daniele-Hadi Irandoost   Although the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations are both about language, one is more likely to find the latter intriguing upon learning that Wittgenstein had radically revised his ideas in that work, after realising, as he plainly admitted there, he had made ‘grave mistakes’…

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