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A dazzling production combining French philosophy and Broadway tunes by musical virtuoso Leonard Bernstein is having its Australian run.

4/5 This collection of artefacts from the French court marries cutting-edge (for the time) technology with beauty

Learn about key Enlightenment Thinkers like Locke, Rousseau, and Voltaire who shaped modern political thought.

The Holy Roman Empire, it was famously put (by Voltaire, I think), was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Likewise, the First Amendment "actual malice" test isn't actually about malice, but rather about whether the speaker knew the statement was false or likely false (and indeed the Court has…

As ​Voltaire, an 18th-century writer, historian, and philosopher, said in one of his most popular quotes, “Common sense is not so common.” The post 31 People Confess Things They Didn’t Know Until Embarrassingly Late In Life first appeared on Bored Panda.

The US artist’s work is a riot of words and images that now seem to have eerily foreshadowed Donald Trump – and a grinding, alarming soundtrack has been added for this astonishing, rattling exhibition

If you believe Noah's ark was real and demons come out of the TV, it's just a small jump to embrace the Big Lie

In return, the president gave the King a golden coin featuring Charles’s portrait.

Venice, the “floating city” in northeast Italy, has an intangible magic. The canals coursing between the 118 islands on which it is built, and under the almost 400 bridges connecting them, are alive with boats and gondolas, which remain the lifeblood of Veneto’s regional capital. Its architecture defies gravity, and…