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Instead of just photos, some will decide for a painting of a scene of the wedding by an artist who live paints
An American wedding
In the USA it is a whole different story, made of hundreds of small and big things
Budo teaches complete determination combined with mental flexibility and constant adaptation
Implementing budo-based tools
Combining full determination with mental flexibility in daily life
Hope must be based in truth and reality
These are not normal times
We must always continue to hope
Connection to nature is central to many indigenous cultures
Why we need spiritual ecology
Significant ecological changes demands a change of perspective
There are no minimum wage or overtime pay requirements for prison work
Forced labor
Modern slavery in the US prison system
Iranian writer Sadegh Hedayat
Sadegh Hedayat: as influential as Kafka, yet in his shadow
One of the greatest Iranian writers and pioneer of modern Persian literature
In 1992, Rigoberta was youngest person and first indigenous person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
Rigoberta Menchú: an extraordinary woman
An interview with the Nobel laureate and Guatemalan indigenous rights activist
In everyday language, guilt is understood as responsibility
Guilt and forgiveness
How to deal with guilt?
How could we possibly start to understand another's point of view if we do not take the time to listen?
How cancel culture only cultivates disconnection
I want you to believe I am having a human experience
In northern Serbia, česnica is an essential sweet of crispy layers filled with walnuts and raisins
Orthodox Christmas in the Balkans
Christian and pagan customs intertwine to celebrate life
French film "Joyeux Noël" shows the ceasefire on Christmas Eve 1914
Merry Christmas at war
Venezuelans in World War I
Budo teaches complete determination combined with mental flexibility and constant adaptation
Budo for education
Combining full determination with mental flexibility in daily life
Luca Lampariello is more than just a polyglot
Learning foreign languages for real!
Interview with Luca Lampariello, one of the greatest polyglots in the world
The aim of this campaign is to unite people from the seven corners of the earth
Promoting peace through global memory
The New7Wonders movement explores symbols, peace and collective experience
Titanic tragedy really shows the class system in a nutshell
In memorial of Titanic and the great widows it left behind
Julie Cook relives her authorial journey with a candid interview
Scientists have warned that the present level of commitments would drastically increase heat waves, droughts, flooding and wildfires across the globe
Climate change conference of the parties 26
Do we still have leaders capable of making hard decisions?
The rapid ingress of the transgender movement into so many of our professional and personal lives
Questioning transgender ideology
We must demand better theory, better research and much more careful practice
Dialogues take centre stage during the Cortona Week, participants are encouraged to build meaningful connections
Perspectives
A vital need for augmenting the traditional educational system
Statue of the wounded Amazon, Capitoline Museums, Rome
Was the queen of Amazons a spy?
A way of stabilizing peace, very common in ancient times
Montenegro is tiny country with long and turbulent history
An interview with Paul S. Cutter, code name Siberian monk
A new light to the origin of Montenegrin family Petrovic-Njegos
The world is at a dead-end and facing the most serious crisis in history
Philosophy on the ropes? Not in Lima, not in Mexico
A Latin American response
The Caucasian Albania capital during antiquity was Qabala (Gabala)
Caucasian Albania
The ancestors of the Balkan Albanians?
Our conversations ranged about everything
A neighborhood corner conversation
There is something else beyond objectivity and opinion
Your job as a witness is simply to tell the truth
Expert tips for smart and relaxed testimony
The more clear and neutral you are, the more you will be a trustworthy and helpful witness
Two beams of light mark the location of the old World Trade Center towers
Memories of 9/11
Stories of heartbreak and survival
Maya Lin, American designer and sculptor, within her “Ghost Forest” (2021) installation. Courtesy of the artist and Madison Square Park Conservancy. Photo credit: Andy Romer
The alarming increase of ghost forests
An artistic intervention in New York City underlines the problem
Venice is a fragile city that only its inhabitants can make live
Venice, “the Serenissima” since 1600 years
With Nicola Sene and Silvano Gosparini, resistant craftsmen-artists
September 11, 2001, New York
A Venezuelan in each tower
Twenty years ago, New York
There is no humanity without philosophy
Is philosophy on the ropes?
Unesco’s Audrey Azoulay takes culture to Belfer
View on the Roman Forum
Ancient Jewish Rome
An interview with Micaela Pavoncello
Italy influences global culture in a pivotal way, like no other country on the planet
Did you just Google "how to learn Italian easily?"
Francesca Ruberti solves your doubts
Transgenderism has become a social movement
Gender transition
An article I didn't want to write
Ernest Hemingway in Finca Vigía, Cuba
Hemingway’s connection to Latin America
The influence of Cuba on his writing
It is more important than ever to be sure that our children are learning an honest and accurate American history
Future generations need to be able to think critically
Why the fear of teaching true American history?
Salman Amin Khan
Sal Khan, an unsung hero
Using Khan Academy to make learning more equitable
ANU - Museum of the Jewish People, exterior
ANU. The museum of the Jewish People
An interview with Dr. Orit Shaham Gover and Mr. Assaf Gamzou
Unfortunately, slavery still exists today
Racial bias
Human races do not exist
Relationships are based on digits transmitted through particle-waves
Hungry for your electrons
Virtual and remote reality is a matter of daily life
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘lost’ legacy
The man who always expressed his concern for the dispossessed of the earth
The Tulsa Massacre (1921)
We have been deprived of learning the true history
Why the fear of teaching true American history?
Hugues Taraval, The feast given to the gods by Tantalus, 1767
Villains punished
Authority and cruelty
German submarine U123
The Venezuela freighter sunk in 1941
A Swedish ship attacked during World War II
History has had the tendency to present our countries in the light of the glorious past
Can history help us out of this muddle?
The oppression machinery
Borges changed language, but also people.
Borges' peculiar sense of humour 
Endlessly readable by those who admire him, awaiting rediscovery by new generations of readers
Four pillars of destiny
The study of destiny
BaZi: “four pillars of destiny”
While philosophy touches upon social issues, it is not a form of politics —at the very least it is above the mundane level of confrontation known as “politicking”
Philosophy’s disdain of politicking
"Let us return to serious things"
Rachel Hore
Time travelling
An interview with Rachel Hore
Women must be respected and appreciated
Why teach feminism in curriculum?
Feminism is rarely in the textbooks and out of the news
Former South Korean “comfort woman” Lee Yong-soo photographed during the unveiling ceremony for the new memorial in Seoul
The human tragedy of “comfort women”
Japanese Imperial Army's legacy of abuse
Meeting between the physicits Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Robert Andrews Millikan and Max von Laue
Max Planck and the hard times
Not only the genius, the human being
Julius Caesar was given military support by Jews at a critical moment in his fight in Egypt against Pompeii
A new chapter in history
What do Julius Caesar, George Washington, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have in common?
Deforestation in Indian Himalaya, deepening our rift with nature © Ashish Kothari
Oxygen and the airs of forgetfulness
The most important thing in our life
For some to tear down the system, while for others transform it with love
Baby boomers and the age of reckoning
A generation with a thirst for change
Anonymous, Napoleon crossing the Alps
The louse that defeated Napoleon in Russia
Reinterpreting history through genetic research
Léonie Bischoff
Depicting a muse
An interview with Léonie Bischoff
Silk road
Silkworm secrets
New and very risky ventures upon a global Silk Road
Georg Perlberg (1807-1884), Siege of the Acropolis, during the Greek War of Independence
1821: freedom or death
History, drama of ceaseless struggle
Wearing masks most all the time
Unmasking fear
No one wants to die!
The future is now
The future has arrived
It is definitely nothing that has come before
Anonymous Painter, Havana
Ego-stuff made in ego-land
Low-pain ideas on freeing ourselves from ahamkara
There are unlimited opportunities to take pen to paper
Anyone can write
Who needs Cyrano de Bergerac?
Pablo Neruda and Salvador Allende
Pablo Neruda
Man of words, man of politics
Tsubaki, the first novel by Aki Shimazaki
The essence of writing
An interview with Aki Shimazaki
The Atlantic Spain's historic offer of citizenship to Sephardic Jews
Hidden legacy of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula
An interview with Michael Steinberger, at the crossroads of Sefarad
Topiary art originated in the first century B.C. in ancient Rome at the time of Lucullus and Sallustius
Life and the art of pruning
What is essential becomes visible
Cloud Gate (2006) Anish Kapoor, Chicago, USA © Peter Miller/the artist
The Haçienda must be built
The pressing need for creative, financial and industrial visionaries
The flat-Earth movement conspiracy
The mother of all conspiracies
What is life all about?
Traditionally Chinese believe that everyone’s birthday is celebrated on New Year’s Day
Chinese New Year or Spring festival
Two celebrations in one
Auguste Rodin, Le Penseur
Mysticism of a normally difficult life
Short ideas about moments that pretend to be eternal
Yayoi Kusama with her installation © Hans G. Andersson
Do the standing still
It may well take the arts decades to regain ground
Bart's Books, Ojai, California
Who decides what books we read
The entire process of how books are chosen is too secretive considering its societal impact
The Silk Road spirit is a historic and cultural heritage shared by all countries around the world
Into the past: the Silk Road
Communication and cooperation between the East and the West
The Pope and the Inquisitor, by Jean-Paul Laurens
Christ, the disobedient
Authentically free faith
Bayt Dakira, space of Judeo-Moroccan memory
Jewish history in Morocco
Bayt Dakira, space of Judeo-Moroccan memory
Humans have for thousands of years questioned what is right or wrong
Ethics and the Universal Declaration
From Antiquity until Enlightenment
Edward Burne Jones, Frances Graham
Discovering Frances Graham
An interview with Andrew Gailey
John Ruskin
An interview with Rebecca Lipkin
A new perspective on John Ruskin and Rose La Touche
Do all veterans matter?
Do all veterans matter?
Are African American veterans remembered and honored in the same way as other veterans?
Chinese culture is strongly connected to its root and historical events
Laoshi
Remarkable cultural dimension of Chinese teachers
Leonardo da Vinci and the rules of universal architecture
We need to put man back at the center of the universe
Albania during the Second World War
Holocaust and the Albanian besa
Challenging moments will reveal the true nature of friends
Anne Boleyn
An interview with Hayley Nolan
Discovering Anne Boleyn’s truth
Chinese calligraphy
The four treasures of Chinese calligraphy
Spirit within characters
Social dementia provides no vision of enlightenment
From our blind alley to fertile philosophical fields
Season of masks and fellow foolishness
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck and the Balkans
What did the German Chancellor say about Europe's southeastern peninsula?
Police remove a body from the scene of a multiple fatal stabbing in northwest Calgary
Butler Mansion: as it was
A positive, and creative place where people from all walks of life from all over the world gathered to enjoy themselves
Plantation slaves and workers during a break at noon
The five American wars for slavery
The slave owners won the first three
Chinese calligraphy, contains the essence of Chinese culture
The art of Chinese calligraphy
Spirit within characters
Freedom
Freedom from a necessitarian point of view
An essay on the intelligibility of nature
Sophia Bennett
An Interview with Sophia Bennett
A quest from the past
Choosing as postponement of problems
The bag or the life
Choosing as postponement of problems
Filial piety is central to Confucian role ethics
Filial piety
Chinese moral virtue
Clare Mackintosh
An interview with Clare Mackintosh
The intimate relationship between a writer and her readers
Regent’s Park
The hidden gems of Regent’s Park
It's time to take a walk through history and culture
The gingko leaf
Barbara’s Persian poets
Goethe and the gingko leaf
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