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Especially because of your review of the first volume of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I feel obliged to point out that the Bicentennial of American independence will also be the 1,500th anniversary of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in 476. A better coincidence you couldn't find...
...spends his rare moments of rest strolling through his elegant garden in Verrieres-le-Buisson with his two cats, named Fourrure (fur) and Essuie-plume (penwiper). Still French Polymath Andre Malraux, 73, took time out to visit the Louvre for a television tribute to Michelangelo in honor of the 500th anniversary of the artist's birth. "Michelangelo invented the hero type. It had not existed before him, and he certainly did not discover it in antiquity, where it does not exist either, despite a well-anchored presumption," said the former Minister of Culture under Charles de Gaulle. Then...
That statement comes at a curious juncture in Western history -the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Polish churchman and scholar Nicholas Copernicus. It was his dryly mathematical, yet brash book On the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies that dislodged the earth-and man along with it-from the center of the universe, moving the sun into that place. The Copernican theory shook the most basic theological and philosophical canons of the day. Even more important, it provided the intellectual spark for the tremendous acceleration of knowledge that Western culture has since come to call science...
Last Saturday, Yale too had the option of giving Princeton its 500th win, but like Brown, the Elis decided to add to Quackenbush's total, and gave him a 5-2 loss...
Harvard is next in line and you can be sure that the Tigers would love to get their 500th tonight, against the team that humiliated them on January 13, 11-1. The Tigers are 5-14 on the season and 2-6 in the Ivies. Their wins came against St. Anselms, Penn, Yale and B.U. (by forfeit...