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Lisa Halverson

Education - Right Question Institute - 1 views

  • Question Formulation Technique™ (QFT™
andybee

Did you know you can buy a chocolate version of the most ancient piece of art? - 0 views

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    I found one educational and one interesting resource for learning more about the ancient Venus of Willendorf. You can see the place where it was found and what it looked like. Then, you can decide to buy an 8-inch chocolate figure of it!
Shanell Reynolds

Homer Iliad - 0 views

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    Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are a major part of ancient history, especially that of Ancient Greece. This site, by means of a purely educational and learning mission, has put together a collaboration of materials and works by our team that we feel will help you to understand and get more out of Homer and his/her/their works.
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    Includes a summary as well as some analyses of the poem.
welch16

Analects of Confucius - 1 views

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    Goes through a brief background of Confucius and then gives his views on many things (government, right living, education, etc.).
annieamos

The Canterbury Tales - 0 views

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    Context The Canterbury Tales is the most famous and critically acclaimed work of Geoffrey Chaucer, a late-fourteenth-century English poet. Little is known about Chaucer's personal life, and even less about his education, but a number of existing records document his professional life. Chaucer was born in London in the early 1340s, the only son in his family.
Lisa Halverson

Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War - 0 views

  • Lactantius was a fourth-century pagan convert to Christianity who took particular delight in arguing against pretty much everything any pagan philosopher ever said, including that the earth was round.
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  • tealthily misrepresent a few church fathers as flat-earthers (Basil, Chrysostom) and to argue that the non-flat-earthers were a few brave soles swimming against a colossal tide.
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  • rigen, Ambrose, Augustine, Clement, and Aquinas
  • . It was a classic fight of good vs. evil, progress vs. regress, ignorance vs. enlightenment -- just what the papers needed to sell copy
  • There never was a flat earth dogma
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  • They fabricated a false history highlighted by a non-existent dogma and used them to brand religion as unceasingly reactionary, dim-witted, and anti-science.
  • Claiming that science and religion have known only unrelenting warfare betrays one's ignorance of history and possibly one's social/political agenda.
  • tarting a war on false pretenses is nothing new. But when a few nineteenth-century academicians declared a science-vs.-religion war, they did us all a disservice.
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  • Christianity was currently opposing progress because it has always been an impediment to science, reason, and progress. An especially egregious example of this was the Church's insistence on a flat earth,
Brady Spiva

Divine Comedy: The Game - 0 views

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    This is a game made for the Newgrounds Game Jam 5. The theme was Literature, and the creators were allowed to pick their own literary works and make games based off of them. This team chose The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri. This is educational, but mostly just hilarious.
Taylor Abegg-Lawrence

Magna Carta - National Constitution Center - 0 views

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    JOHN, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his officials and loyal subjects, Greeting.
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Antipater - 0 views

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The Lion Gate at Mycenae - 0 views

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    This website is education based and has great information!
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