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Schrödinger’s Love Life Was as Unconventional as His Famous Cat
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... -
Picasso and the Women Who Fueled His Art
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... -
Benjamin Franklin’s Romances from Philadelphia to Paris
Benjamin Franklin. Born in 1706 in Boston, the fifteenth of seventeen children in the household of a humble candle maker,he grew up surrounded by noise, warmth, and light. As a statesman, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence.A... -
Martin Luther’s Marriage to Katharina von Bora, the Runaway Nun
In the 16th century, a man rose to challenge the authority of the papacy, stirring a storm of reformation that reshaped the very nature of faith in Europe — Martin Luther. Yet within his life lay another kind of “revolution.”He renounced... -
Napoleon and Josephine, the One Woman the Emperor Could Not Possess
A boy born on the Mediterranean island of Corsica would one day build an empire and shake the world— Napoleon Bonaparte. Racing through the storms of revolution and triumphing on countless battlefields,his life was forever shadowed by tw...
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