St George’s Day and Shakespeare’s birthday On 23 April each year, England celebrates its patron saint, Saint George, a figure whose story blends legend and history. Believed to have lived in the 3rd century in what is now Turkey, George was a Roman soldier who refused to give up his Christian faith and was executed for it. Over […]
By Francesca Lungarotti ‘Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary’ Blaise Pascal Magnus, Wilhelm, and Ferdinand von Wright are key figures in the history of science and culture in 19th-century Finland and Sweden, and are deeply rooted in the Finnish national imagination. They are sometimes considered the same person, although […]
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