20th Century– tax –

Many people have heard the phrase “Schrödinger’s cat.” The cat that is said to be both alive and dead has become known as a strange symbol of the uncertainty inherent in quantum mechanics. And the creator of this thought experiment was t...

In the history of painting, few figures lived a life that was itself a work of art as completely as Pablo Picasso. By establishing Cubism, he overturned at the root the very notions of “what painting is” and “how reality is to be se...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The man who opened India's road to independence from the British Empire with weaponless resistance, holding up nonviolence and truth. Called "Mahatma" — great soul — his name is still known around the world as...

Osamu Dazai. No Longer Human, The Setting Sun, Run, Melos! —His works overflow with the fragility of human weakness, with a delicacy that seems barely alive. It is as if each of his loves left behind a record of a heart sl...

His life read like a hardbound novel steeped in the scent of whiskey and tobacco. Ernest Hemingway —a man who faced the tempests of war and history with a rifle in one hand and a typewriter in the other,and carved a new language and soul...

Can a young girl’s love bloom even in the midst of war? Anne Frank quietly asks us that question. Her life lasted only fifteen years.Yet her words transcend time, still echoing vividly today. The sky above the attic, the glow of candleli...

Albert Einstein. The man who formulated the theory of relativity and is hailed as the greatest genius of the 20th century.But inside that brilliant mind swirled not only equations—it also held a passionate and tangled view of love. Born ...