The Closing Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured in Uncommon Footage from 1910

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114 years in the past immediately (Novem­ber 20, 1910), Leo Tol­stoy—the creator who gave us two main Russ­ian clas­sics Anna Karen­i­na and Struggle & Peace—died at Astapo­vo, a small, distant prepare sta­tion within the coronary heart of Rus­sia. Pneu­mo­nia was the offi­cial trigger. His loss of life got here simply weeks after Tol­stoy, then 82 years…

Simone de Beauvoir Explains “Why I’m a Feminist” in a Uncommon TV Interview (1975)

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In Simone de Beau­voir’s 1945 nov­el The Blood of Oth­ers, the nar­ra­tor, Jean Blo­mart, reviews on his baby­hood good friend Marcel’s reac­tion to the phrase “rev­o­lu­tion”: It was sense­much less to attempt to change any­factor on this planet or in life; issues had been unhealthy sufficient even when one didn’t med­dle with them. Each­factor that…