This series has easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionTo set an exact date as marking the culmination of the vast influence of Voltaire upon
Blood Circulation Discovered
This series has four easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionContemporary with Galileo and ranking but little below him in influence upon the
Molière Creates Modern Comedy
This series has four easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThe seventeenth century was the period of a very remarkable literary outburst in
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Published
This series has three easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionWhatever may be said of the credit due to other scientists for investigation or
Building the First Theatre In England
This series has six easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionA History of the Theatre, the scholarly work of Mantzius, has had no time to become a
The First Modern Novel
This series has three easy 5 minute installments.Introduction"Let me make the ballads of a nation," said Fletcher of Saltoun, "and I care not
The Battle of Marathon
This series has twelve easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionMarathon! A name to conjure up such visions of glory as few battlefields have ever
The Battle of Thermopylae
This series has six easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThe invasion of Greece by Xerxes is the subject of the great history written in nine
Theseus Founds Athens
This series has two easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThe founding of the city of Athens, apart from the mythological lore which ascribes