Hippocrates is a semimythical figure who is regarded as the Father of Medicine. He may have been a real person, a leader within a movement within Greek medicine. However, the … Continue reading Hippocrates: On the Sacred Disease, Hippocratic Oath
We will be holding our Regional Gathering (BLAST!) at the Springhill Suites at Newark Airport (yes the same venue as in previous years).
We will have an admissions test session at our BLAST! Regional Gathering. Please bring a printed copy of your voucher and your picture ID to the session. If you are under the age of 18, but at least 14, you need to bring a parent or guardian and complete additional forms. You must contact Richard … Continue reading Admissions Testing
Erasmus of Rotterdam was a Dutch Humanist and Christian theologian and regarded as a true "Renaissance Man." Humanism was a movement that focused on the agency of individuals, which humanists … Continue reading Erasmus: In Praise of Folly
Because of the winter storm, the Sunday events for our BLAST! regional gathering will be held remotely Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82538147795?pwd=6UsKSI5lhbrJ0vQbKHuDoVlsqn7QXn.1 Meeting ID: 825 3814 7795 Passcode: 426657 --- One tap mobile +13052241968,,82538147795#,,,,*426657# US +13092053325,,82538147795#,,,,*426657# US --- Join by SIP • Join instructions https://us06web.zoom.us/meetings/82538147795/invitations?signature=0FtCW4ZXMNKjbUO47tbYyEUgJsuQC4htULMZHHj-7Ms
Nelle Harper Lee (whose pen name was Harper Lee) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1962 for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel was the basis for the movie … Continue reading Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman
Go Tell It on the Mountain (published 1953) is a semiautobiographical novel by James Baldwin. The novel is set in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City that was home … Continue reading James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Northern New Jersey Mensa Armchair Conversations are a friendly setting for serious conversations.
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Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. He had no birth certificate and thus never knew his precise age. However, he chose February 14 as his official birthday because his mother regarded him as her "little Valentine." While he was still a boy, a kindly woman taught him to read, which was … Continue reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
