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Amanda Foreman
Human beings have never encountered extra-terrestrials, but we’ve been imagining them for thousands of years
The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2019
Fifty years ago this month, Kurt Vonnegut published “Slaughterhouse-Five,” his classic semi-autobiographical, quasi-science fiction novel about World War II and its aftermath. The story follows the adventures of Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier who survives the bombing of Dresden in 1945, only to be abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore and exhibited in their zoo. Vonnegut’s absurd-looking Tralfamadorians (they resemble green toilet plungers) are essentially vehicles for his meditations on the purpose of life.
Some readers may dismiss science fiction as mere genre writing. But the idea that there may be life on other planets has engaged many of history’s greatest thinkers, starting with the ancient Greeks. On the pro-alien side were the Pythagoreans, a fifth-century B.C. sect, which argued that life m
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When I first discovered that my 8-year-old kid believed that the adventures of Odysseus were the actual history of ancient Greece, I panicked and bought him a stack of children's history books. I sat by his side as he started reading about the class structure of Athens and the economic underpinnings of the Greek polis. He yawned. He asked for candy... and then for the Disney Channel...Kids like stories. And when it comes to history, they learn from stories, not from dense paragraphs about the phases of the Bronze age, the location of trade routes, or the injustices of the social order here and there.This book follows the old-fashioned, story-based, traditional route of teaching history - through tales of heroes and kings, with no tribute paid to modern economic and social perspectives. Culture is memes. And that means historical figures, and anecdotes about them. To write this book, I went back to Tacitus, Livy, Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Valerius Maximus, Josephus, Eusebius, Theodoret
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Kemal Reis
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1451 - 1511
Kemal Reis
Kemal Reis (c. 1451 – 1511) was an Ottoman privateer and admiral. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kemal Reis has received more than 163,475 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Kemal Reis is the 688th most popular military personnel (down from 615th in 2019), the 460th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 496th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Turkish Military Personnel.
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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS
Among military personnels, Kemal Reis ranks 688 out of 2,058. Before him are Roza Shanina, Rostam Farrokhzad, Hans Langsdorff, Mark W. Clark, Raoul Salan, and Maximilian von Prittwitz. After him are Hermocrates, Lothar von Arnau