Historically, when there has been a notably significant revolution to overthrow the standing government, does the military typically defend the government or join the revolutionists?
In an article in the TLS, Toby Lustig points out that Einstein in a letter to the New York Times, a few months after the declaration of Israeli idependence:
wrote to complain of 'one of the most disturbing phenomena of our times' - the new Israeli Freedom Party, (also a precursor to today's L...
It seems counterintuitive to me that Elizabeth I was a powerful monarch at a time when women were considered inferior to men. I understand that monarchs were believed to rule by divine right, but I guess I don't understand why kingdom's like England allowed them to rule at a time when women, and ...
It seems counter-intuitive to me that Elizabeth I was a powerful monarch at a time when women were considered inferior to men and when women didn't even have the right to vote in the UK until 1918. I understand that monarchs were believed to rule by divine right and have far-reaching powers, but ...
Simone Weil wrote in her book, The Need for Roots:
The Romans were really an athiestic and I idolotrous people, not idolatrous with regards to images made of stone and bronze, but idolatrous with regards to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form o...
Did the impressionists make 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' popular? I saw a youtube video that claims this but I'm not sure if its true.. I looked up impressionism movements and I couldnt find any source that states they were all for subjectivity...
I am looking for the typical scientific units that are used when defining acceptable light levels for light-sensitive materials, like historical fabrics when they are on display. Is it lux-hours (exposure), or lux (illuminance)?
What political party did Stalin belong to? I know he identified as a communist, but he didn't act like one: he occupied a somewhat large portion of the Baltic states(Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia). He also did not suppress religion and was against the Permanent Worker’s Revolution even though the...
Historically, when there has been a notably significant revolution to overthrow the standing government, does the military typically defend the government or join the revolutionists?
In an article in the TLS, Toby Lustig points out that Einstein in a letter to the New York Times, a few months after the declaration of Israeli idependence:
wrote to complain of 'one of the most disturbing phenomena of our times' - the new Israeli Freedom Party, (also a precursor to today's L...
Did the impressionists make 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' popular? I saw a youtube video that claims this but I'm not sure if its true.. I looked up impressionism movements and I couldnt find any source that states they were all for subjectivity...
I am looking for the typical scientific units that are used when defining acceptable light levels for light-sensitive materials, like historical fabrics when they are on display. Is it lux-hours (exposure), or lux (illuminance)?
