Day: January 23, 2019

Formosan shipwrecks, headhunters, and pirates…

I’ve recently gotten back into Taiwan’s history of shipwrecks, savages, and pirates, perhaps because I’ve lately also been reading a lot of Conan novellas. The most famous shipwreck involved the Rover, an American merchant vessel that ran aground near Eluanbi (southern tip of island) in 1867. The ship didn’t quite sink after hitting a coral reef…

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Renaissance Humanism

Renaissance Humanism “Beauty was believed to afford at least some glimpse of a transcendental    existence. This goes far to explain the humanist cult of beauty and makes plain that    humanism was, above everything else, fundamentally an aesthetic movement. Human    experience, man himself, tended to become the practical measure of all things. The…

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