The International Centre for Greek Philosophy and Culture (ICGPC) is a non-profit academic, research and cultural Institution which was formed in 1987 and established by law in 1990. The ICGPC has its seat in Samos (Pythagorion), land of Ionia, which is also the birthplace of philosophy.
The ICGPC has its aim to [...]
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“The 4th Tetralogy: Exploring Plato’s Middle Dialogues,” is dedicated to examining Plato’s Republic, Phaedrus, Symposium and Phaedo, and was recently put on-line for the general public. The site features the texts of Plato, hyperlinked to several search engines (with appropriate cross-links to Perseus), a new forum for scholarly exchange, and an [...]
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Scott Gellar has seen the light at the end of the bumper, and it’s a friendly shade of green.
Gellar, a psychology professor at Virginia Tech, has developed a device along with some colleagues that he says could reduce road rage by letting drivers communicate with a system of flashing lights.
The Road Rage [...]
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The city of Aachen lies in a Prussian valley, surrounded by wooded heights, on the Wurm, a tributary of the Roer, on its way to the Meuse. Population, 1 December, 1905, 151,922 (including the Parish of Forst); Catholics, 139,485; Protestants, 10,552; Israelites, 1,658; other denominations, 227. [1990 Population: about 250,000 — Ed.]
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Epicurus (341-270 BC) was a Greek philosopher born on the island of Sámos of an Athenian family, and privately educated by his father, a schoolteacher, and by various philosophers. At the age of 18 he went to
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Government lawyers have rejected a Texas attorney’s challenge to join a scientific field test that he has said would prove that federal agents fired at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco just before it burned in 1993.
The federal lawyers sent a caustic letter Monday declining to participate in tests designed to show how airborne infrared [...]
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