Today is the birthday of Carl Lotus Becker (September 7, 1873 - April 10, 1945), author and historian. He is best known for his works, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932) and Everyman His Own Historian (1935).
"The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it." - Carl Lotus Becker
"Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept." - Carl Lotus Becker
"All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any." - Carl Lotus Becker
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Vindolanda volunteer finds disc brooch intact with pin
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A volunteer at this season’s excavation of the Roman auxiliary fort of
Vindolanda just south of Hadrian’s Wall uncovered a brightly-colored disc
brooch wit...
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