The ideal city – can we even imagine such a thing? Two-and-a-half millennia ago, about 375BC, Plato did exactly that. His Republic described a city shaped by absolute beauty, truth and, above all, ...

There is already a vast literature in many languages dealing with the meaning and value of the criticisms of Plato by his most eminent pupil, and a wide discrepancy of opinion on almost every ...

Who was Herbert Wells? Herbert Wells (also known as H.G. Wells) was an English writer and published author. He was ...

The fear of that often prompts a superficial reference to the final fall of the Roman Republic or the end of Greek democracy ... However, following Athens’s Golden Age, 4th century BC Greek critics ...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic on Friday reported its largest ever cocaine seizure, saying it found some 9.5 metric tons of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment that ...

Speech-to-text used to be regarded as very niche, specifically just used for busy people who needed dictation software, or else had accessibility needs. However, speech-to-text is moving more and ...

to acquire First Republic Bank was the best outcome for the lender’s private bank and wealth-management operations. “We might have won by losing,” Van Saun said in an interview Wednesday in ...

Columbus Regional Health is introducing “Hello World,” a new and more convenient way for patients to receive text messages from CRH. The new platform is a Short Messaging Service (SMS ...