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Pearl of Great Price
Aug 29, 20218 min read
Aug 26 Nietzsche and the 'murder' of God
Today in 1900 the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died. The last ten years of his life had been filled with unhappiness...


Pearl of Great Price
Aug 11, 20214 min read
Aug 11 Deep Ethics Cosmology - George Ellis
Today in 1939 George Francis Rayner Ellis was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is now the emeritus distinguished professor of...


Pearl of Great Price
Jul 30, 20213 min read
July 30 Johann Sebastian Bach
Today in 1750 the body of Johan Sebastian Bach was laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the churchyard of St. John’s, Leipzig. The...


Pearl of Great Price
Jul 2, 20213 min read
July 3 Prester John and Marco Polo
For more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the Far...


Pearl of Great Price
May 31, 20214 min read
June 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls
A Bedouin shepherd throwing a stone into a cave on the shore of the Dead Sea was puzzled by the cracking sound within. Investigating he...


Pearl of Great Price
Feb 1, 20216 min read
Feb 1 - Translating the Bible
Today we remember the life and work of Erasmus the Dutch priest and 'Prince amongst Humanists'. This is the day in 1516 he dedicated his...


Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20214 min read
Jan 27 - Dante exiled from Florence
Today in 1302, we remember how the Italian poet Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence. In exile Date wrote the celebrated work The...
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