All posts tagged "philosophy"
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13.0K6MaineJames Healy, Portland’s African-American Bishop Who Passed for White
James Healy, born a slave, became the Roman Catholic bishop of Portland and founder of the Diocese of Manchester in the late...
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50.7K23Arts and LeisureThe Shaggs Record the Most Stunningly Awful Wonderful Record Ever
In 1969 the Shaggs, a rock band made up of sisters, released an album to wildly mixed reviews. Critics called it one of...
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30.7K20Arts and LeisureThe Two Loves of Louisa May Alcott
Before Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, she wrote a book about a young girl named Sylvia in love with an intellectual...
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22.4K10Business and LaborAnother Look at Hetty Green, The Witch of Wall Street
That Hetty Green hoarded her vast Gilded Age fortune and lived like a pauper there can be no doubt. That she was...
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36.0K13Arts and LeisureDelia Bacon, Driven Crazy By William Shakespeare
Delia Bacon hated William Shakespeare so passionately she lost her mind and her health trying to prove he didn’t write those plays....
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11.2K11MassachusettsMalcolm X and Martin Luther King in Boston: One City, Two Different Worlds
When Martin Luther King, Jr., moved to Boston in 1951 to study for his graduate degree in philosophy, Malcolm X was already...
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