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I am watching this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/I2PWAQBcXGM?si=ZyxScNRVy9sY5f6L
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Socrates, one of history’s most influential philosophers, is still studied by scholars today. He gathered disciples, including Plato and Xenophon, taught them to challenge assumptions, and encouraged critical thinking. However, his questioning of Athenian traditions and authority made him controversial in 399 BCE; he was charged with impiety—failing to acknowledge the gods of Athens—and corrupting the youth.
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note: Bathilde is the name of my accounts on social media.
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An antique Scottish superstition once records, the Hays of Errol, an estate in Perthshire, lying near the Firth of Tay, had their fate tightly interwoven with the mistletoe that fostered on an enormous oak of an unknown age. This old myth was told by Thomas the Rhymer (1220-1298), a Scottish poet and prophet of great…
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Walter John de la Mare, an English poet of the late Victorian Era, best known for his distinguished works for the children and for his short fiction stories exhibiting psychological horror, once wrote in his poetry collection Peacock Pie (1913) a poem Mistletoe—