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The Tragic Real Life Story Of Confucius Shutterstock By S. Flannagan/Jan. 19, 2021 1:49 pm EDT/Updated: March 29, 2021 9:35 am EDT It is a well-known fact that many great figures are not properly appreciated in their own lifetime. Though in the centuries after they have gone, their reputation might grow inexorably, to the point at which the life of a single person may come to influence entire countries or continents, permeating the societal beliefs and behavior of the billions who come after. For no one is this more true than the ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher Confucius, who it is believed lived between 551-479 B.C.E., according to the Stanford Dictionary of Philosophy, but whose ideas would eventually go on to shape Chinese society right up until the present day. Confucius, whose name, according to the same source, is a Latinized form of his family name, K ung, and the Chinese word for Master, began life in comparatively humble circumsta ....
When Did Humans First Fall In Love? Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images By S. Flannagan/Jan. 19, 2021 9:58 am EDT If we were trying to identify the high point of the Western veneration of true love, we would most likely hope to find it somewhere in the 1960s. The famous Summer of Love occurred in 1967, when the themes of peace, harmony, and free love were spread by hundreds of thousands of a new wave of youthful counter-culturalists, the hippies, who descended upon the city of San Francisco in droves. The same year, The Beatles released their famous anthem All You Need Is Love, a perfect distillation of the group s core message that was beamed around the planet, says the band s website, as part of the Our World satellite broadcast. ....
The Crazy Real-Life Story Of 1984 Author George Orwell Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By S. Flannagan/Jan. 11, 2021 3:08 pm EDT/Updated: Jan. 11, 2021 3:10 pm EDT There s an old stereotype about novelists that they ll do anything to get new material. In the case of George Orwell, one of the most quoted (and misquoted) authors of the 20th century, this certainly rings true. In fact, the British author had what can only be described as an almost pathological necessity to accumulate experiences through which to understand the world anew. Born into a moderately wealthy family as Eric Arthur Blair in India in 1903, according to Biography, his father worked in the Indian Civil Service, overseeing the cultivation of poppies and the production and export of opium to China on behalf of the British Empire, per the BBC. Orwell s mother, who returned to England with her son and his older sister when he was just a year old, was from a cash-poor aristocratic ....