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Archaeology


China's Qin Terracotta Warriors
- the chinese clay army - pictures - images
Heinrich Schliemann
Antikythera Mechanism Otzi - The Iceman of the Alps
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Space Archaeology discoveries

Space Archaeologist Dr Sarah Parcak


Sarah Parcak ~ Space Archaeologist
Archaeology from space
Point Rosee - North American
Norse or Viking settlement sites
Dr Sarah Parcak discoveries
space satellite remote sensing
Space Satellite Archaeology Street plan of Tanis
Space Archaeology
Space Archaeology
satellite imaging
Space Archaeology Pages ~ Index




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History

  "History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Famous Historians A more complete guide to our History Pages
The European Revolutions of 1848
  "1848 remains a seed-plot of history. It crystallized ideas and projected the pattern of things to come; it determined the course of the following century."

  Lewis Namier
The European Revolutions of 1848 begin
A broad outline of the background to the onset of the turmoils and a consideration of some of the early events.

The French Revolution of 1848
A particular focus on France - as an Austrian foreign minister said "When France sneezes Europe catches a cold".

The Revolution of 1848 in Germany and central Europe
the Germanies - Germany - had a movement for a single parliament in 1848 and many central European would-be "nations" attempted to assert a distinct existence separate from the dynastic sovereignties they had been living under.

The "Italian" Revolution of 1848
A "liberal" Papacy after 1846 helps allow the embers of an "Italian" national aspiration to rekindle across the Italian Peninsula.

The European Revolutions - reactionary aftermath 1848-1849
Some instances of social and political extremism allow previously pro-reform liberal elements to join conservative elements in supporting the return of traditional authority. Such nationalities living within the Habsburg Empire as the Czechs, Croats, Slovaks, Serbs and Roumanians, find it more credible to look to the Emperor, rather than to the democratised assemblies recently established in Vienna and in Budapest as a result of populist agitation, for the future protection of their nationality.
The Austrian Emperor and many Kings and Dukes regain political powers. Louis Napoleon, (who later became the Emperor Napoleon III), elected as President in France offering social stability at home but ultimately follows policies productive of dramatic change in the wider European structure of states and their sovereignty.
Italian Unification - Cavour, Garibaldi and the Unification of Risorgimento Italy Otto von Bismarck & The wars of German unification
Understanding the Past, Present and Future : Human Nature and History
Why does History matter? Why do we study History?
The Importance of History, Why do we study History, Why is History important? quotations
R G Collingwood
philosophy of history

Hegel ~ Philosophy of History
Oswald Spengler
Decline of the West
Karl Marx
Historical Materialism
Arnold Toynbee
A Study of History
The Whig Interpretation
of History
Philosophy of History index




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Historical Biography


Cavour
Italian unification
Mazzini &
Young Italy
Metternich &
The Congress of Vienna
The Diplomacy of Talleyrand
and Napoleon Bonaparte
Otto von Bismarck &
German unification
Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Quotations & Quotes

Introduction to our selections of
key poetical and topical quotations



  Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.
  William Wordsworth



Man proposes but God disposes quotation
The pen is mightier than the sword

quotation origin source
Famous quotations and quotes about
Learning from History

Famous quotations and quotes about
The Lessons of History

Nietzsche : "God is Dead" quotation
Richard Dawkins
quotations and quotes
Science Darwin & Evolution
Richard Dawkins
quotations and quotes
about God and Religion
Faith and Religious Beliefs
Richard Dawkins
Cultural Christianity
Winston Churchill quotes Wisdom Quotes
George Orwell, 1984
Big Brother is watching you
George Orwell, 1984
Ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears
George Orwell, 1984
The Party is always right
Who controls the past controls the future
Doublethink 1984
Newspeak 1984
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul
Invictus
1984 : George Orwell
quotations and quotes
Stephen Fry
quotations and quotes
on Gods and Religions
Faith and Religious Beliefs
Marcel Proust
having / seeing with new eyes
quote citation source
Niemoller - They came for
Communists, Socialists and Jews
Karl Marx quotation
On religion as the opium of the people
Otto von Bismarck
Blood and Iron quotation
Christopher Hitchens
quotations and quotes
on Gods and Religions
Charles Darwin : "Survival of the Fittest" quotation

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Psychology & Social Psychology



Psychology


The nature vs nurture
debate or controversy
- human psychology
New York Longitudinal Study
Alexander Thomas, Stella Chess, Herbert G. Birch
William Sheldon Ivan Pavlov
classical conditioning
Obedience experiment study 1974
Stanley Milgram
Abraham Maslow's pyramid
The Milgram Obedience Experiment
French reality TV show - The Game of Death

Social Psycholgy


Social Identity Theory
Tajfel and Turner 1979
Henri Tajfel
discrimination between social groups
Minimal Group Paradigm Study
Two experiments by Henri Tajfel & colleagues
Conformity under Social Pressure
Solomon Asch
The Robbers Cave experiment
Muzafer Sherif
Group / Selective Perception
Hastorf & Cantril
Festinger and Carlsmith
Cognitive Dissonance case study




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Faith vs. Reason


The Science versus Religion Debate Science and Religion quotes
Science and Religion debate
Eastern vs Western Metaphysics Atman Brahman Metaphysics




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Gautama Buddha & Buddhism


Buddha's teachings
Dalai Lama biography Verses on the Faith Mind
Third Patriarch of Zen
Buddhism vs Christianity
Burning House Parable Buddhist Philosophy
Buddha, The Sermon at Benares
Buddhism Pages ~ Index




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Plate Tectonics

Continental Drift hypothesis
Alfred Wegaener
Tectonic Plates
boundary types

Charles Darwin
famous quotations & quotes


Charles Darwin
survival of the fittest quotation


" Man still bears in his bodily frame the
indelible stamp of his lowly origin " quotation


The "there is grandeur in this view of life" closing
sentence to Charles Darwin's - On the Origin of Species


Charles Darwin on the spontaneous generation of life in some warm little pond

Charles Darwin's
"It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank" - quotation


Charles Darwin quotations about the struggle for existence

Letter to a recently-married Charles Darwin
from his new, Christian wife about God being 'beyond our comprehension'


Darwin's views about God
Alfred Russel Wallace biography
(Wallace arrived at the same views as Darwin before publication of Darwin's - Origin of Species!)
Charles Darwin & the Tree of Life
~ three major approaches


Charles Darwin
Tree of Life Sketch 1837


Darwin's Tree of Life diagram
Origin of Species 1859


The Human Evolutionary Tree
Origins of Mankind

Theory of Evolution development
History of Evolutionary Theory
Charles Darwin - Alfred Russel Wallace - Thomas Malthus



Human Evolution Timelines Charts

Human Evolution Theory

Charles Darwin - Alfred Russel Wallace
their Theory of Evolution
and Malthus Essay on Population


Darwin & Evolution Pages ~ Index




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Other Popular Pages


John Locke
mind as a tabula rasa

Both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were much influenced by Thomas Malthus!
Thomas Malthus
Kierkegaard
An outline biography
Existentialism
Jean Paul Sartre
Nietzsche quotation -
God is dead
Friedrich Nietzsche
Major Works
Arthur Schopenhauer
Ideas on philosophy
C. P. Snow - The Two Cultures debate controversy

Stephen Hawking God & Religion quotes

Philosophy is Dead
Professor Stephen Hawkings quotation
The Allegory of the Cave
from Plato's - The Republic
Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson's essay - History
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Philosophy of History
The Divinity School Address by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar address by Ralph Waldo Emerson
New England
Transcendentalism
The Brook Farm Community


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Spirituality &
Comparative Religion

There may be truth in the saying:-

"God is One ~ Religions many"

Buddhist Spirituality
& Mysticism Quotations
Islamic Spirituality
& Mysticism Quotations
Vedic Hindu Spirituality
& Mysticism Quotations
Christian Spirituality & Mysticism Quotations
Sikh Spirituality
& Mysticism Quotations
Taoist Spirituality
& Mysticism Quotations
Jewish Spirituality
& Mysticism Quotations

A collection of these wisdoms is available to



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Jesus' Sermon on the Mount
Jesus' Parable of the Sower
Are all religions paths to God?
Sufi Mysticism
World Religions populations statistics list




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