So I’m taking European history this year in school and I have this teacher whom I’m rather fond of. She’s not exactly a fundamentalist Christian, but she is at least moderately Christian. Today we mentioned the scientific revolution while studying about the witch trials and she goes on a small tangent that goes something along the lines of… So ...

MTV's European Music Awards in Berlin will be dominated by a complete analysis of the post-war detente between east and west, together with a careful study of the ... a bunch of Muslims right, and therefore the whole war on terror thing probably. The Foo Fighters will then dazzle budding history fans by explaining that Western rock and rap and punk and all that shit is quite big in Eastern Europe ...

... were some of the characteristics of the philosophes? 5. Explain how “cogito ergo sum” served as a basis for Cartesian duality? 6. What is enlightened despotism? 7. Which of the European monarchs were Enlightened despots? Which were not? 8. Why would Rousseau be called an apologist for dictators? 9. Which scientist championed the use of the experimental or inductive method of inquiry. ...

... the elites of the European Union are comfortable with that reality or not is irrelevant. Whether the elites of the European Union are happy with the centrality of Christianity having defined the very nature of ... the case is the fear that Muslims would find themselves offended by this particular symbol of European history. The Geek makes this surmise on the following predicates. First, the record ...

... popular understanding of Newman’s famous phrase is that Christian history is European history and that an essential and nearly universal motivation for becoming Catholic is (and should ... The True. The One. Not The Historical. (And I write this as someone who has been passionately interested in history since I was a small child and for the historical dimensions of Catholicism are very important ...

... fell and brought about the beginning of the end of a dark era in our history. And just as few people know much about European history in the years leading up to the First World War (the early years ... very little resemblance to the world that was to follow... the First World War changed everything), the history of the Cold War ends (for many) at the point of the wall falling. Few remember the ...