Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) has emerged as perhaps the most influential thinker of the recent past. To a significant degree, this is due to...
General Knowledge
Observatories
Throughout history, humans have watched the stars in the night sky. Observatories were built to aid in the study of celestial objects as a means...
Nero Claudius Caesar
Nero Claudius Caesar (37-68 ce) was the fifth of the five Julio-Claudian emperors and one of the most notorious. Two millennia after his death, his...
Nuclear Winter
Nuclear winter is a term used to describe the potential environmental and climate effects resulting from a large-scale nuclear war. On December 23, 1983, five...
Noah
Noah is the main character of the cataclysmic flood story told in the biblical Book of Genesis (chapters 6-9). Noah represented the last generation of...
Nietzsche and Heraclitus
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), although extremely critical of many thinkers, completely accepts Heraclitus’s concept of time and develops it further. When Nietzsche read Heraclitus...
Nostradamus
Michel de Nostredame, more commonly known as Nostradamus (1503-1566), is criticized by some and acclaimed by many as a seer whose 942 quatrains (poems with...
Time in Novels
Time in novels is based on a fundamental duality. Günther Müller, a German literature theorist, was the first who reflected thoroughly on this duality. In...
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton, English natural philosopher, mathematician, and physical scientist, revolutionized the theoretical concepts regarding the physical laws that govern the universe. The impact of...
Alexander Nevsky
During his short life, Saint Alexander Nevsky (1220-1263), born Aleksandr Yaroslavovich, made his mark in history as one of Russia’s best-known Christian military commanders; he...
