There is a very old and well-known phrase that says history never repeats. There are a lot of reasons why history never seems to repeat itself and some of those reasons are aesthetic. Events happen at certain points in time and even if you try and recreate those events with the same people a short [...]
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August 31st, 2009 
Admin How Can our History Change Their Future?
August 30th, 2009 Admin How Can Our History Change Their Future? History gets a bad rap in school. Many of us have memories of history class being taught by rote memorization of facts and dates and names with little or no application to our daily lives. No wonder its considered boring and dull. Anytime we are expected to simply [...]
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August 19th, 2009 Admin The Greek Philosophers The names of the three most important Greek philosophers, in order of their dates of birth and also their influence, are: Socrates (469-399 BC) Plato (c. 429-c. 347 BC) Aristotle (384-322 BC) Socrates taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle. Together they created the foundations of Western philosophy. Use your visual memory and [...]